RE: Difference between EBDB and BBDB

[Drew Adams]

> > Just food for thought:
> >
> > It's good to be able to separate the use (UI, UX or
> > whatever) from the database itself - form of records
> > etc.  Regardless of whether it's BBDB or whatever
> > else might come along or already exists out there
> > somewhere.
> 
> That was absolutely my first principle in making this package: the
> classes responsible for storage and behavior have nothing to do with the
> interface presented to the user. In fact, ebdb.el should be usable as an
> API for other packages, while ebdb-com.el should only be responsible for
> the ebdb-mode buffers. I wouldn't be surprised if I've screwed up this
> separation somewhat, but that was the original idea, and I will fix
> relevant bugs!
> 
> > A generic way for a user to define her own
> > record-to-record mapping (for whatever storage form)
> > could help.  It could be a mapping for one-time
> > conversion or a mapping to use at runtime to access
> > another database directly.
> 
> While the documentation doesn't go into this at this point, this is
> precisely how the whole system works, right down to the "generic" term:
> `cl-defgeneric' is basically how you take control of the whole system.

The curmudgeon has nothing more to say.  Good job!