Re: Moving BBDB to Emacs core

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

On Fri, Oct 20 2017, at 16:31, Roland Winkler <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Fri Oct 20 2017 Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
>> Yeah, I tried today to fix these in a way that would maintain BBDB 2.x
>> backward compatibility, but there are too many places to fix in
>> eudcb-bbdb.el.  I'll work on fixing them for BBDB >= 3.x for Emacs > 26,
>> but I'm going to put a NEWS entry in Emacs 26 stating that BBDB 2.x
>> support in EUDC is deprecated.  Then Emacs 27 will have (a) BBDB 3.x
>> core in Emacs (hopefully), and (b) BBDB 2.x backward compatibility code
>> removed.
>
> Maybe you can start with the EUDC upgrade in a scratch branch of
> Emacs.  If you encounter a situation where you find "it would be
> nice if BBDB 3 could...", please let me know.  I do not know
> anything about EUDC and its needs.

SGTM, thanks everyone for your work. The current state of
affairs is no problem for me personally, as I find too much
pleasure in patching things in my config, but it would be
very nice indeed to see the BBDB/EUDC ecosystem reach a
well-integrated equilibrium. I look forward to seeing
everyone's contributions land in master one day. :)

-- 
Basil