Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Addbook vs addressbook

[Adam Hull]

Michael: I took another look at cdb, and it does to appear to have changed 
since I
looked at it a year ago. It seems to have no interface, only a backend, which 
does
look good though. I am just wondering why cdb was abandoned after all that hard
work? But a more important question is: How is the DCL contact application 
coming
along? I hear good things about it.

Brian: I do not claim to be more than a junior developer so I yield to the 
judgement
of you and the rest of those involved with this project. I would have never 
guessed
it would be easier to change the backend than the front end. I would have 
figured
that if we change the backend, we end up having to change the frontend anyway. 
For
instance, if we change the db layout, we have to change the importing/exporting 
as
well as any palm syncing work we have done, am I missing something? But anyway, 
my
specialty has never been db design, it is UI design/development. So that's why 
I am
looking for something I can build on.

Alex: I understand completely. I have been guilty of jumping to conclusions on 
more
than one occassion. It is very easy to do online. :) I value you too much to 
hold
any grudges. So, no worries.

Michael Dean (address@hidden) wrote:
>
>I haven't followed the offline discussion much, but I haven't seen
>mention of cdb.  Shouldn't the development effort be directed at it?  It
>has a much better schema than the alternatives.
>
>On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 23:07, Brian Johnson wrote:
>> I've been discussing this with Ralf on IRC and am the one who created the 
>> base text
>> docs for the wiki pages (hopefully you will all go there and edit them as 
>> you see
fit)
>>
>> To simplify things, we're not weighing the features of addbook AGAINST 
>> addressbook
>>
>> We're talking about adopting the desired features of addbook INTO addressbook
>> (specifically the separation of orgs and people in the db layout .. although 
>> I think
>> a couple of minor mods to the addbook table layout are in order)
>>
>> Addressbook has a LOT of features not available in addbook and frankly, it's 
>> easier
>> to change it's db structure than add the those same features into addbook (I 
>> took a
>> look at doing just that)
>>
>> In fact, the discussion is progressing into .. well if we're doing this, 
>> maybe we
>> should also add that .. and a full review of the addressbook app and the 
>> conceptual
>> design of an inter-app linking system is developing
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