From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim@fitzsim.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Adding BBDB to Emacs core
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 09:34:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ovactap4b.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3zi265o49.fsf@fitzsim.org> (Thomas Fitzsimmons's message of "Sat, 14 Apr 2018 01:54:46 -0400")
Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> I'd like to see what people think about also adding it to Emacs core.
Personally I think this is the opposite direction to the one in which
Emacs components should be moving.
> is that historically BBDB's copyright status didn't allow it to be
> included in core. Otherwise it probably would have been included all
> along.
Bear in mind that ELPAs did not exist when bbdb was first created.
> I'd like BBDB to become the default out-of-the-box local contact
> management library for GNU Emacs, in particular so that Gnus/EUDC/BBDB
> work together to provide email completion and snarfing out-of-the-box,
> without extra configuration or package installation.
If GNU ELPA is a first-class citizen, then all the above can happen
without adding yet more stuff to the main Emacs repo. (Wistfully
thinking here yet again of the project to bundle GNU ELPA packages with
Emacs releases...)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-14 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-14 5:54 RFC: Adding BBDB to Emacs core Thomas Fitzsimmons
2018-04-14 12:24 ` Joshua Branson
2018-04-14 22:06 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-04-14 22:46 ` Joshua Branson
2018-04-15 6:18 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2018-04-16 5:21 ` John Wiegley
2018-04-16 14:53 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2018-04-16 18:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-16 20:30 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-04-17 3:37 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2018-04-23 12:53 ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-23 13:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-23 16:21 ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-23 17:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-24 21:41 ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-24 22:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-25 0:42 ` Paul Eggert
2018-04-25 1:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-25 9:21 ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-25 12:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-25 16:31 ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-25 16:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-26 14:59 ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-25 9:19 ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-25 16:04 ` Radon Rosborough
2018-04-25 16:32 ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-25 16:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-25 20:16 ` Radon Rosborough
2018-04-26 15:02 ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-26 16:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-27 9:57 ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-27 13:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-17 3:23 ` Roland Winkler
2018-04-17 4:56 ` John Wiegley
2018-04-17 13:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-17 15:13 ` Roland Winkler
2018-04-18 23:11 ` Stephen Leake
2018-04-23 12:57 ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-23 13:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-23 15:29 ` Roland Winkler
2018-04-14 22:13 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2018-04-14 13:34 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2018-04-14 17:10 ` Radon Rosborough
2018-04-14 17:38 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2018-04-15 21:20 ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-16 3:11 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2018-04-16 12:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-16 17:09 ` Achim Gratz
2018-04-16 18:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-16 18:14 ` Achim Gratz
2018-04-23 12:45 ` Phillip Lord
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