This list is for discussion and development of BBDB for GNU Emacs.
Support for GNU Emacs 23 has been discontinued in the development branch of BBDB. The last release 3.1.2 still supports it and GNU Emacs 25.1 has been released in the meanwhile.
This is a bugfix release.
The lisp code in BBDB 3.1.1 is identical to the lisp code in BBDB 3.1. Only the autoconf and automake scripts have been updated.
BBDB has been updated to use Automake.
Thanks to Christian Egli <christian.egli@sbs.ch> for helping with this.
This has significantly simplified the scripts for building BBDB.
Also, it has made the build of BBDB more compliant with GNU standards.
This has brought BBDB v3 yet closer to its first proper release.
The build process now uses autoconf. Except for typos and other unintended mistakes an up-to-date installation guide is in the file INSTALL.
To match common naming conventions the autogenerated file bbdb-autoloads.el has been renamed to bbdb-loaddefs.el. This is now the file you need to load in your init file to make BBDB known to your emacs. To avoid unexpected confusion, `make' throws an error if it finds an old file bbdb-autoloads.el.
If you download BBDB from savannah, you need autoconf to start a proper build of BBDB. (The repository does not contain the autogenerated `configure' script that will be distributed with a proper release.) If you do not have autoconf installed, you can compile BBDB using lisp/makefile-temp as a temporary workaround. See INSTALL.
The repository now has a zeroth version of a BBDB info manual, see the ./doc directory. I added these files to the repository at such an early stage of the info manual so that the configure and make files need not be modified once more to add support for the info manual.
The repository now has a directory ./tex with the TeX files required by the command bbdb-print.
BBDB now contains a file lisp/bbdb-ispell.el that provides ispell support for the names in BBDB by exporting these names to your personal ispell dictionaries. Thanks to Ivan Kanis.
Grab it with "git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/bbdb.git"
The CVS repository will be disabled after testing.