Re: [Addressbook-devel] include addressbook in GNU Emacs

[jemarch]

   >    >    Is addressbook ready to include in Emacs?
   >    >
   >    > It needs more work before to think to include it in the Emacs
   >    > distribution. There are bugs and it is still incomplete.
   >
   >    Can addressbook be integrated with any mailer (Gnus, MH-E etc) at the
   >    moment?
   >
   > Not yet. A convenient "public" API to access contacts information
   > should be designed and implemented.

   I will continue using BBDB for now.

   BTW, which format is more popular, vCard or XML? There seems to be quite
   a few request in BBDB mailing list to use XML.

I dont know about popularity, but AFAIK the vcard format is much more
used than other XML-based formats: almost all email programs
understand vcard 2.1 (not vcard 3.0). I never found an application
using a XML-based format of vcards.