From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Difference between EBDB and BBDB Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 12:34:23 -0700 Message-ID: <87a7e5mpc0.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <47447FCB-5DFA-49C8-8733-F6D07B7FFE57@icloud.com> <87ef3hmtuz.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="265399"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 25 21:34:50 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hfrDN-0016hS-JS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jun 2019 21:34:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34858 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hfrDF-0004oG-VW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jun 2019 15:34:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35605) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hfrD5-0004o6-OO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jun 2019 15:34:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hfrD4-0002r6-NQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jun 2019 15:34:31 -0400 Original-Received: from ericabrahamsen.net ([52.70.2.18]:34528 helo=mail.ericabrahamsen.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hfrD4-0002pa-JQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jun 2019 15:34:30 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [205.175.106.185]) (Authenticated sender: eric@ericabrahamsen.net) by mail.ericabrahamsen.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 54D9DFA648; Tue, 25 Jun 2019 19:34:28 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 25 Jun 2019 12:06:21 -0700 (PDT)") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 52.70.2.18 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:121053 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: >> Right now I'd say two big differences are multiple record types (there >> are separate record types for people and organizations, and records can >> have "roles" at multiple organizations) and internationalization >> (phones/addresses can be aware of national formats, as can non-English >> scripts for names). > > It sounds like, as one big difference, they are incompatible. You > cannot use the same "database" records for both. Is that right? That's right. > If so, that's a big difference. If so, does either provide a function > to import records from the other? EBDB can import from BBDB; EBDB hasn't been around long enough for anyone to want to go the other way. If someone tried it for a couple months and hated it, but didn't want to lose their contacts, I could pretty easily write a BBDB exporter. EBDB also has pluggable/swappable databases, so in theory one could make a database type that stored to a BBDB-usable file, but I'm not sure why you'd want to do that. I forgot EBDB's other major selling-point: it has a manual! Eric