[Kde-pim] New release of KBBDB

[Kevin Krammer]

On Tuesday, 2010-06-01, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Monday 31 May 2010, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote:
> > On Saturday 29 May 2010, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > > On Saturday 29 May 2010, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote:
> > > Hmm, not sure why you think you'll have to use anything other than
> > > kabcclient which you are already using now.
> > > 
> > > You can use kabcclient's --search option to check whether there's
> > > already an entry for an email address. The following command line
> > > will add an entry for <email address> if there isn't an entry
> > > 
> > > already:
> > >   kabcclient --search <email address> 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null || \
> > >   kabcclient --add <email address>
> > 
> > Thanks, I understand that.  What I'm more concerned about is the
> > stability of that interface.  Is there any formal commitment that
> > this method will be preferred and available for, say, 2 years at
> > least?
> 
> I don't think kabcclient will ever change this interface. Kevin will
> have to give you a definitive answer since kabcclient is his baby.

I consider the commandline interface of kabcclient to be like public API.
It was designed to be extendable which I might to in the future to support new 
unique identifiers (e.g. Akonadi URLs).

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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