From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1259 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Fredrik Staxeng Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Is BBDB really that bad? Date: 02 Oct 2002 13:40:47 +0200 Message-ID: <1mr8f9t6f4.fsf@Tempo.Update.UU.SE> References: <1mn0pyk7su.fsf@Tempo.Update.UU.SE> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668032 10458 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:40:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:40:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:53 2006 Original-Sender: fstx@Tempo.Update.UU.SE Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: news.update.uu.se Original-X-Trace: puffinus.its.uu.se 1033558204 news.update.uu.se (2 Oct 2002 13:30:04 +0100) Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!lackawana.kippona.com!news.teledanmark.no!uninett.no!news.net.uni-c.dk!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!puffinus.its.uu.se Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1399 Original-Lines: 28 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1399 Tue Jan 17 17:28:53 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1259 Archived-At: Galen Boyer writes: I have deleted most of your arguments, to get at the crux of the matter. > a dbms backend, merging would be much simpler and I know I could write ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > alot of what would be needed for the community to merge there > out-of-sync bbdbs. I.e. there are lots of people that already know that way, but less people who have the knowledge to do it in the current way. This is not an unimportant argument, far from it. In the big picture things like this have a major effect on the success of a system. But in a specific case like this it boils down to a) Somebody who is comfortable with elisp could write this for you. But then money would have pass the in other direction. b) You could get comfortable enough in elisp to do it yourself. But then you would find it easier to do the merging functionality in elisp! (I bet you a bottle of twelve year old on this) Anyway, I find elisp hackery a good thing to know. -- Fredrik Stax\"ang | rot13: sfgk@hcqngr.hh.fr