Re: org-bbdb-anniversaries gives error 'bad sexp'

[Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>]

"Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org> writes:

> On Sun May 15 2011 Matt Lundin wrote:
>> I'd be happy to take this on. AFAICT, there are three functions in
>> org-bbdb that no longer exist in bbdb v3.
>> 
>> bbdb-name
>> bbdb-company
>> bbdb-record-getprop
>> 
>> The first two can easily be defaliased to bbdb-search-organization and
>> bbdb-search-name. (For a while, we should probably support bbdb v2 and
>> v3 simultaneously.)
>
> Things might be a bit more subtle. The new organization field is
> a list, not a single string.

Thanks. That's good to know. AFAICT, bbdb-search-organization already
accommodates for this fact. That is, if you give it a regexp, it will
return all records matching the regexp in the organization field. Since
org-bbdb calls bbdb-company with a string as an argument, wouldn't a
defalias be sufficient for the time being?

>> The other major change that breaks compatibility is the order of the
>> parameters in bbdb-split. It has been reversed in the new bbdb: i.e.,
>> one used to call (bbdb-split string separator), whereas now one must
>> call (bbdb-split separator string). Is there a compelling reason to
>> change this order in the new bbdb?
>
> The change is not only with respect to the order of arguments that
> could be reverted in BBDB v3. More importantly, I tried to get rid
> of hard-coded separators. Most often the separator arg is now the
> name of the field that is split. Then the actual separator is looked
> up in bbdb-separator-alist. While I do not know yet a good strategy
> for the upgrade of org-mode's BBDB interface, I'd find it
> unfortunate if such a feature was lost in org-mode to preserve
> backward compatibility.

Thanks for the explanation. For the time being, I'll add a workaround to
accommodate both versions.

Best,
Matt