Re: [Evolution] contacts-database format

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 23:43, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 14:36, Peter Williams wrote:
>
> > Interface Definition Language. In our particular case, we use OMG CORBA
> > IDL (Object Management Group Common Object Request Brokering
> > Architecture) as CORBA is the basis of our IPC (Inter-Process
> > Communicaton). Does that make things clearer? :-)
>
> Does that imply that evo must be running to access the address book? Or
> can one statically link to an evo library that lets one insert or
> extract values?

you have to have part of it running (wombat), yes.

> I suspect the original poster wants to write an import/export utility.
> 'Twould be nice not to need a running evo to accomplish that.

then you risk database corruption. Do yourself a favour and use the
CORBA interfaces to add/extract entries from the addressbook and don't
use libdb3 directly or you *will* be sorry.

Jeff

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