status of the addressbook conduit

[Matt Davey <mcdavey mrao cam ac uk>]

I just thought I'd post a quick message about my work on the addressbook
conduit.

If you currently find the contacts/addressbook conduit unreliable, buggy
or just incomplete, read on.

There are two relevant patches at present:
      * category support for addressbook conduit, and fixing the
        first-name/last-name split bug.  This patch is attached to bug
        #201167 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201167) and
        has been awaiting review since October 12th.
      * various changes to fix several data loss and data corruption
        bugs in the addressbook conduit.  I have for a long time had
        problems where phone/email fields would lose data, get reordered,
        get duplicated, etc., and the conduit was generally unreliable.
        I have, I believe, fixed the majority of these bugs and I
        submitted a bug report and patch to the Evolution bugzilla (bug
        #556061 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=556061) on
        October 12th, but it has not yet been accepted.  The reason is
        that there is a possibility of side-effects outside the
        addressbook conduit (these could certainly be fixed if they
        arose).

If you need these bugs fixed, please feel free to comment on the above
bug reports to let the Evo maintainers know that these bugs are real and
are affecting users.

Thanks,

Matt

Matt Davey	         "Madam, I had a wonderful evening, but this 
mcdavey mrao cam ac uk           wasn't it."  --  Groucho Marx.