Re: [O] bbdb or bbdb3 or org-contacts

[Dieter Wilhelm]

Thank you very much for all the input.

So in summary it is on the safe side to use bbdb for a transition period
because neither the maintainability of bbdb3 nor org-contacts seem to be
ensured.

          Dieter

PS: I hope future developments will bring forth a stable database
solution maintained within Emacs proper.

Daimrod <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden writes:
>
>> Daimrod <address@hidden> writes:
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>>> Bastien <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi Dieter,
>>>>
>>>> Dieter Wilhelm <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> What do you advise, what is already usable and what is the way
>>>>> ahead, still bbdb or bbdb3 or already org-contacts?
>>>>
>>>> BBDB is great.  org-contacts.el is too slow when you have many
>>>> contacts, and it is not really maintained anymore.
>>>
>>> I've started to use org-contacts.el. I haven't (yet) problem with its
>>> speed but I've improved the completion mecanism which prevented me to
>>> use it. When I'll finish to document/comment it, I'll post it here.
>>
>> I would be very interested in having a look.
>
> See the attached patch files. I still need to need to take into account
> what could be after the cursor
>       vvvvvv ATM I only use this
> From: John [cursor]D
>       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ But I would like to use this
>
> But it mostly works.
>
>> I migrated from bbdb to org-contacts, but it turned out to be too slow,
>> so now I mostly isearch for the contact I want.
>>
>> Recently I've bee thinking of trying a strategy where bbdb could act as
>> a cache for org-contacts, but I havent tried it yet. It shouldnt be too
>> hard I think. org-contacts can generate a list of all contacts, that you
>> then iterate and generate the bbdb database from. It might be a useful
>> addition in any case.
>
> I was thinking to add a cache mecanism directly to `org-contacts.el'. It
> would load the content of the contacts files the first time into the
> appropriate structure and then reread the files only when they changed.
>
> Moreover, `org-contacts.el' doesn't use the new parser from
> `org-element.el' ATM, and using it might improve the performance too.
>
>
> PS: Sorry for the double patch files but the `org-reverse-string' part
> hasn't been merged yet and I use it.

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Best wishes

H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt
Germany