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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kab and Aethera and Kapital
From:       Shawn Gordon <shawn () thekompany ! com>
Date:       2001-04-14 14:38:02
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At 10:45 AM 4/13/2001, you wrote:
>#if Shawn Gordon
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We've gotten a lot of requests to share a single address book between
> > Aethera and Kapital and that we also make use of kab as that
> > repository.  This makes a lot of sense, but on a cursory examination of
> > kab, it doesn't have near enough information to support the Kapital 
> address
> > book.  Now before we just jump in and start changing it to suite our 
> needs,
> > I would like to see what the situation is with kab and if what we are
> > talking about would be viewed as a good or bad thing. Thanks!
>
>Sounds like a good thing to me...
>
>I've written large parts of an implementation of my idea for a kab
>replacement, which supports multiple addressbooks, per-addressbook
>user-defined formats and pluggable storage backends. There's only one
>backend in existance at the moment, 'file' - which is concurrent-access
>and NFS safe and seems to work well. An LDAP backend would be easy. Next
>I need to think about the design of the searching interface and decide
>whether I should be interfacing with kdedb or Qt 3's DB stuff for a DB
>backend.

This brings up a question for me.  Does anyone know of the DB stuff in Qt 3 
is going to be part of the GPL version of Qt?  I don't know if that has 
been established yet, and it will obviously affect a lot of decisions.

>Perhaps we could discuss whether the approach I have taken will be
>suited to the needs of Aethera, Kapital, etc., and if not, how I
>should proceed ?

Why don't we go ahead and start discussing this offline (if that seems 
appropriate).  Anyone else want to be involved?

>Rik
>
>
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Regards,

Shawn Gordon
President
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www.thekompany.com
949-713-3276


 
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