From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] Package proposal: EBDB Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2017 20:08:42 -0700 Message-ID: <87r2wud5tx.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87efsxspgv.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87fudbi8af.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87poceethn.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501643381 7749 195.159.176.226 (2 Aug 2017 03:09:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 03:09:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 02 05:09:38 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dck2P-0001UD-F0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2017 05:09:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45253 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dck2T-0000Y8-ME for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2017 23:09:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52741) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dck1s-0000Y0-HG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2017 23:09:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dck1o-00047F-Cg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2017 23:09:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=43858 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dck1o-00045S-6B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2017 23:08:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dck1b-0007VV-8F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2017 05:08:43 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:N6/a5NVfY+N2sn+IBCH9nmy0EoU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:217230 Archived-At: John Wiegley writes: >>>>>> "EA" == Eric Abrahamsen writes: > > EA> I guess my arguments for the package are pretty much what I stated > EA> earlier, then. The present BBDB is limited in that record fields are just > EA> key-value pairs, for the most part strings. If you want to add a new type > EA> of field, you need to add branches to about a dozen `cond' statements > EA> throughout the BBDB codebase. In EBDB, new field types can be added via an > EA> external library. Likewise, the behavior of existing fields (and records > EA> and databases) can be altered with external libraries. EBDB fields can > EA> have arbitrarily complex data slots and behavior. > > This paragraph is enough for me to want it. :) The ability to make BBDB > extensible in future without requiring core changes is definitely a positive > thing. Well, good! I'm bad at pitching, but I wouldn't have put all this work in if I didn't think it was a fundamental improvement. The goal is a fairly tight core of code that doesn't need to know about the particulars of various database, record and field classes. I'll continue sorting out the copyright questions. Thanks, Eric