Re: Adding BBDB 3 core to Emacs

[Roland Winkler]

On Mon Nov 23 2015 Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>  > Have you looked at the new code?
> 
> I don't need to; I trust you that 'most every line has been changed,
> and many functions completely rewritten.  The point is that old
> configuration works with very little change with the new code.
> Therefore it stinks of "derivative work" to me.

Your view would never allow a program like libreoffice to come into
existence.

(Users who switched from old to new BBDB suffered a lot in the sense
that none of their old configurations worked anymore.  But our
current discussion was a major reason not to worry about the old
code base.)