From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Difference between EBDB and BBDB
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 12:06:21 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bc2fd1fe-697f-4655-901e-2ff1623d043e@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ef3hmtuz.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>
> 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?
If so, that's a big difference. If so, does either provide a function to import records from the other?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-25 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-25 2:15 Difference between EBDB and BBDB M.R.P. zensky via help-gnu-emacs
2019-06-25 15:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-25 17:56 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-06-25 19:06 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2019-06-25 19:34 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-06-25 20:34 ` Xavier Maillard
2019-06-25 21:39 ` Jude DaShiell
2019-06-25 21:08 ` Drew Adams
2019-06-25 21:25 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-06-25 21:40 ` Drew Adams
2019-06-25 22:20 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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