Re: Moving BBDB to Emacs core

[Roland Winkler]

On Fri Oct 20 2017 Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> Yeah, I tried today to fix these in a way that would maintain BBDB 2.x
> backward compatibility, but there are too many places to fix in
> eudcb-bbdb.el.  I'll work on fixing them for BBDB >= 3.x for Emacs > 26,
> but I'm going to put a NEWS entry in Emacs 26 stating that BBDB 2.x
> support in EUDC is deprecated.  Then Emacs 27 will have (a) BBDB 3.x
> core in Emacs (hopefully), and (b) BBDB 2.x backward compatibility code
> removed.

Maybe you can start with the EUDC upgrade in a scratch branch of
Emacs.  If you encounter a situation where you find "it would be
nice if BBDB 3 could...", please let me know.  I do not know
anything about EUDC and its needs.

Roland