From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Roland Winkler" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.bbdb.user Subject: Re: Adding BBDB 3 core to Emacs Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 15:42:49 -0600 Message-ID: <14041.65164.427377.22098@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <82mvuffcyc.fsf@jobim-via-gmail.com> <45822.7509.289752.22092@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <64270.20127.528598.22095@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <837flb46rd.fsf@gnu.org> <52708.83016.592199.22096@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <22097.26737.870404.583614@turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <57388.42932.894770.22097@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <22097.59862.631373.834781@turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448228606 26012 80.91.229.3 (22 Nov 2015 21:43:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 21:43:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: John Wiegley , bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 22 22:43:05 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a0cPX-00081Y-RP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2015 22:43:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57627 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0cPX-0007CK-TR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2015 16:43:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36614) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0cPM-0007CF-OX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2015 16:42:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0cPL-0002xz-Uc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2015 16:42:52 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50060) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0cPL-0002xt-RF; Sun, 22 Nov 2015 16:42:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [2602:30a:2e52:d720:611e:d7c3:7cbe:ef67] (port=58277 helo=regnitz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1a0cPL-0000fA-5g; Sun, 22 Nov 2015 16:42:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: <22097.59862.631373.834781@turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:195072 gmane.emacs.bbdb.user:4119 Archived-At: On Mon Nov 23 2015 Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > Have you looked at the new code? > > I don't need to; I trust you that 'most every line has been changed, > and many functions completely rewritten. The point is that old > configuration works with very little change with the new code. > Therefore it stinks of "derivative work" to me. Your view would never allow a program like libreoffice to come into existence. (Users who switched from old to new BBDB suffered a lot in the sense that none of their old configurations worked anymore. But our current discussion was a major reason not to worry about the old code base.)