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diff --git a/html/index.html b/html/index.html deleted file mode 100644 index 2ba4498..0000000 --- a/html/index.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,275 +0,0 @@ -<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> -<html> -<head> -<title>The Insidious Big Brother DataBase @ SourceForge</title> -<link rel="stylesheet" href="bbdb.css"> -</head> - -<body> - -<h1 align="center" -><img src="images/headright.gif" alt="head" width="50" height="25"> -The Insidious Big Brother Database -<img src="images/headleft.gif" alt="head" width="50" height="25"></h1> - -<p align="center">Quicklinks: - <a href="#get">get the bbdb</a> -| <a href="#lists">mailing lists</a> -| <a href="#links">links</a> -| <a href="#manual">manual</a> -| <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a> -| <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbdb/">project home</a> -| <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/bbdb/">freshmeat entry</a> -</p> - -<h2>What is The Insidious Big Brother Database?</h2> - -<p>The Insidious Big Brother Database (BBDB) is a contact management -utility created by <a href="http://www.jwz.org/">Jamie Zawinski</a> for -use with <a href="http://www.gnu.org/emacs">Emacs</a>. For many years it was -maintained by <a href="http://www.waider.ie/">Waider</a>. Since February 2007 -BBDB is maintained by <a href="http://www.robf.de">Robert Widhopf-Fenk</a>.</p> - -<p>It is tightly -integrated with several mail and news readers (see below), allowing it -to create database entries directly from mail and news messages. As is -usual with applications for Emacs, this record creation can be -configured in many ways, ranging from a boolean create/don't create -setting to creation based on the result of a user-supplied function.</p> - -<p>Database records can be used to store many types of -information, from name and address to URLs and X-Face images. -This information can be displayed when a message from an entity -named in a database record is recieved. In addition, messages -from database members can be tagged in the Gnus Summary Buffer, -and Gnus scoring can be configured based on the contents of -database records. Supercite citations can even be preset -through the use of records in the BBDB.</p> - -<h2>Requirements:</h2> - -<h3>Supported versions of Emacs</h3> - -Starting with 2.35 there is no active support for Emacsens < 21.4! -<dl> - <dt><strong><a href="http://www.gnu.org/">Gnu</a> - <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html">Emacs</a></strong> - <dd>versions 21.4 and above</dd> - <dt><strong><a href="http://www.xemacs.org/">XEmacs</a></strong> - <dd>versions 21.4 and above</dd> -</dl> - -<h3>Supported Mail and News readers</h3> - -<p>The BBDB can be used without a mail- or news-reader. It has, -however, been optimized for use with one.</p> -<ul> - <li><a href="http://www.gnus.org/">Gnus</a></li> - <li><a href="http://www.wonderworks.com/vm/">VM</a></li> - <li>MH-e</li> - <li>Rmail</li> - <li>UNIX <a href="http://www.netscape.com/">Netscape</a> Mail - (via bbdb-srv)</li> - <li>UNIX <a href="http://www.netscape.com/">Netscape</a> News - (via bbdb-srv)</li> -</ul> - -<h2><a name="get">Getting the BBDB</a></h2> - -<p><a href="bbdb-2.35.tar.gz">BBDB 2.35</a> is the current -stable released version, released on January 30, 2007.</p> - -<p>The current version, 2.36, is tagged on the git repository - git://github.com/barak/BBDB.git which also holds the development - version. At least, those doing development there think so. - </p> - -<h3>Compilation notes:</h3> - -<ol> - <li>BBDB uses autoconf to generate its Makefiles, so it should work - anywhere that autoconf works. The tarballed version comes with - prebuilt configure script and Makefiles; the CVS version will - require you to use autoconf to generate the configure - script. If you don't have autoconf, you can get download a <a - href="configure">prebuilt configure script</a>. Please note that - the Makefiles in the tarball are built using the defaults, - i.e. Emacs to compile with and no extra directories - specified.</li> - - <li>Texinfo 3.11 (or later) is required to compile the texinfo - documentation. It is available at <a - href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu">the GNU FTP - site</a>. Precompiled info files are included in the - tarball. Some work has been done by ShengHuo ZHU to make this - unnecessary.</li> - - <li>Building on platforms without <tt>make</tt> or running BBDB - uncompiled can be assisted by downloading a <a - href="bbdb-autoloads.el">prebuilt bbdb-autoloads.el</a>. A - <tt>make.bat</tt> for Windows platforms is in the works; see the - mailing list archives for more details. -</ol> - -<h2>CVS tree</h2> - -<p>The development and release versions are available via Anon-CVS -to the CVS tree at <code>bbdb.cvs.sourceforge.net</code>. To access the -tree, log in with the following command: - -<pre> -cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@bbdb.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bbdb login -</pre> - -The password is blank; just hit return at the prompt.</p> - -To check out a version of the BBDB, use one of the following commands: - -<pre> -cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@bbdb.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bbdb checkout bbdb -cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@bbdb.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bbdb checkout -r rev bbdb -</pre> - -<p>The first command will check out a copy of the latest version. -Usually this latest version will be a development version, but it may -fetch a release version if the command is executed soon enough after a -release version is made available.</p> - -<p>The second command allows control of the version retrieved, through -the <code>-r rev</code> argument. The <code>rev</code> portion of the -argument should be replaced with a word of the form:</p> - -<center><code>BBDB_</code><var>x</var><code>_</code><var>yy</var></center> - -<p><var>x</var> and <var>yy</var> are components of the version to be -retrieved, as in <var>x</var>.<var>yy</var>. -<strong>Note:</strong> <code>unoff</code> should be appended to the -above word for all versions prior to 2.00.</p> - -To retrieve version 1.90, use the following argument:<br> - -<pre> --r BBDB_1_90unoff -</pre> - -To retrieve version 2.34, use the following argument:<br> - -<pre> --r BBDB_2_34 -</pre> - -<h2><a name="manual">Manual</a></h2> - -<p>You may browse <a href="bbdb.html">HTML version of the texinfo -manual that accompanies BBDB</a>, which is generated by <a -href="http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~obachman/Texi2html" -><code>texi2html</code></a>.</p> - -<h2><a name="lists">Mailing Lists</a></h2> - -<p>There are two mailing lists for the BBDB:</p> - -<dl> - <dt><strong>bbdb-info</strong></dt> - <dd>General discussion about the BBDB, both for users and developers. - The archive for mails up to end of April 2000 can be found at - <a - href="http://www.mail-archive.com/bbdb-info%40xemacs.org/">http://www.mail-archive.com/bbdb-info%40xemacs.org/</a>. Since April 2000 mails are archived at - <a - href="http://www.mail-archive.com/bbdb-info%40lists.sourceforge.net/">http://www.mail-archive.com/bbdb-info%40lists.sourceforge.net/</a>. - - <p>SourceForge has built-in archiving which didn't initially - seem to be working, but is apparently okay now. You can find this - linked off the <a - href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbdb/">project home</a> on - SourceForge.</p> - - <dt><strong>bbdb-announce</strong></dt> - <dd>Announcements of new BBDB versions. This list is moderated, and - has very low volume.</dd> -</dl> - -To subscribe to either mailing list, send mail to -<var>listname</var><code>-request@lists.sourceforge.net</code> with -<code>subscribe</code> as the body. You will receive a reply -requesting confirmation of your subscription; return the confirmation -as described in the email, and you're on the list. Alternatively you -can visit the list signup page, linked from the <a -href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbdb">project page</a>. - -<h2><a name="links">Links</a></h2> - -<p>Several people have been hacking at BBDB and have pages describing -what they're at. Please check which version of BBDB they apply to -before attempting to use them!</p> - -<ul> - <li><a href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/alex/">Alex Schroeder</a> - has done some work on <a - href="http://www.geocities.com/kensanata/bbdb-funcs.html">address - formats and pine/mailrc integration</a>. He's also responsible for - making BBDB handle non-US addresses a lot better.</li> - - <li><a href="http://www.Jochen-Kuepper.de/">Jochen - Küpper</a> has done some work on - <code>bbdb-print</code>, which is now in CVS.</li> - - <li>Thomas DeWeese</a> wrote a <a - href="http://pilotmanager.sourceforge.net/">PilotManager</a> plugin - called SyncBBDB, and also implemented the - multiple-same-name-records support. <a - href="http://syncbbdb2.sourceforge.net/">SyncBBDB</a> is now - maintained by Aaron Kaplan.</li> - - <li><a href="http://www.splode.com/~friedman/">Noah Friedman</a> is - currently maintaining <a href="http://www.jwz.org/">jwz</a>'s <a - href="http://www.splode.com/~friedman/software/emacs-lisp/index.html#bbdb-pilot-jwz">bbdb-pilot.el</a>.</li> - - <li><a href="http://meltin.net/people/martin/">Martin - Schwenke</a> has written some code to export BBDB records to a Nokia - phone via <a href="http://www.gnokii.org/">gnokii</a>. You can find - it at <a href="http://meltin.net/hacks/emacs/">Martin's web - site</a>.</li> - - <li>Broken: <a href="http://www.valente.de/aldo/palm/">Aldo Valente</a> has - done some work on making SyncAB (from PilotManager) work with - BBDB.</li> - - <li>Broken:<a href="http://t2100cdt.kippona.net/linux/emacs/mew/">Chris - Beggy</a> has managed to get BBDB working with Mew, a mailreader - with Japanese language support. There's a bbdb-mew.el on his page - which should probably make it into the official tree at some - point.</li> - - <li>Broken:<a href="http://www.esperi.demon.co.uk/nix/">Nix</a> has some - expiry code for BBDB which allows you to automatically discard old - BBDB records.</li> - - <li><a - href="http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~s1010824/data/lbdb2bbdb.tar.gz">lbdb2bdb</a> - is some code by Steffen Liebergeld to migrate lbdb data to bbdb.</li> - - <li><a - href="http://www.neilvandyke.org/bbdb2tbird/">bbdb2tbird</a> - is some code by Neil Van Dyke to migrate BBDB data to the Thunderbird - address book.</li> - - <li>The <code>bits</code> subdirectory in the source tree contains - random bits and pieces that I've collected but not - integrated, including a generic export filter of sorts and PGP and - Outlook integration/interaction. Please note that at least some of - this hasn't been modfied to work with versions later than - 2.00.06.</li> - -</ul> - -<hr> -<address><a href="http://www.robf.de/">Robert Widhopf-Fenk</a> (based on -<a href="http://www.waider.ie/">Waiders</a> and Matt Simmons' BBDB page</a>)</address> - - -<p align="center">Hosted by<br><a href="http://sourceforge.net/"><img -src="http://sourceforge.net/images/sflogo2-steel.png" vspace="0" -border=0 width="143" height="70" alt="sourceforge.net"></a></p> -</body> -</html> |