Re: [BBDB] ChangeLog 2022-03-26 (increase version number, snarf vCards)

[Jeff Clough]

Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org> writes:

> I have installed a patch (so far only on savannah, but not on GNU
> Elpa).  Can you please try it out?

This seems to have fixed it!

>   BBDB now uses `gnus-info-params' that was a macro up to Emacs 26;
>   it was turned into a function starting with Emacs 27.  Then, when compiling
>   BBDB, it makes a difference whether the compiler expands the macro in
>   old versions of emacs, or whether it calls the function that exists in
>   newer versions of emacs.  So compiled code for BBDB works only for the
>   older or newer version of Emacs for which it got compiled.

Oof. That sounds like a frustrating bug to track down.

Thank you very much for resolving this so promptly, and thank you for
all of your work on BBDB.

Jeff