[VM] vmpc and bbdb3

[Rene]

I've been using bbdb3 for quite some time now. Things are working pretty
well so far except for a full integration with vm-pcrisis.el.

Has anyone fixed vm-pcrisis.el in order to comply with bbdb3?

At least the following functions need fixing:

- vmpc-save-profile-for-address
- vmpc-load-auto-profiles
- vmpc-migrate-profiles-to-BBDB

Replacing the function names hereunder seems to do the job.

BBDB2 -> BBDB3
bbdb-record-putprop bbdb-record-set-field
bbdb-record-net bbdb-record-mail

In case someone has a bbdb3 compliant vm-pcrisis.el, I'd be interested in
having a look at it.

Let's insert such rewrite in the coming VM release.

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[Uday Reddy]

Post by Rene
I've been using bbdb3 for quite some time now. Things are working pretty
well so far except for a full integration with vm-pcrisis.el.

That is good, but is that the experience universally? I still see some data
corruption bug reports on the mailing list.

Post by Rene
Has anyone fixed vm-pcrisis.el in order to comply with bbdb3?

I can't yet compile BBDB3 on Win XP. BBDB 2 used to compile under Cygwin
fine. The last time I successfully compiled the new BBCB, about a year ago,
I could compile it under MinGW. But, now, it is not compiling under MinGW
either.

But I am also not sure what reasons there are for switching to BBDB3. It
seems to do the same things as BBDB 2, less reliably, and in an incompatible
way. It only works with Gnu Emacs 23+ (no XEmacs), and doesn't have a
manual. That doesn't sound like it is ready for a switch yet.

Cheers,
Uday