Re: bbdbv3 with rmail

[Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net>]

Hello,

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> BBDB seems a good candidate but dunno if v3 is ok (there is really
>>> poor litterature with it)
>> BBDB 3 is a bit arcane and does take time to learn and to get set up
>> for the way you like to work.
>
> Do you happen to have concrete examples at hand of "arcanity" and other
> difficulty you encountered (or which you think someone else would
> encounter)?
I wouldn't use the term arcane, but I think part of the issue -if it is
an issue- is that a lot of (most?) documentation/howtos/tutorials/stuff
out there is for bbdbv2 and that naturally doesn't work anymore with
bbdbv3. As a result, you may need more time to configure stuff to your
liking and you probably need more knowledge about how things work. And
that is putting off a lot of people, I think.

Well, my personal pet peeve is the design of bbdbv3. As with its
predecessor, support for specific applications is (deeply) build into
bbdb. I think it would be better to provide a nice general interface and
let the application camps (wanderlust, Org, foo, etc.) implement their
use cases.

Regards
hmw