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Make eudcb-ph.el obsolete

* doc/misc/eudc.texi: Bump version to 1.40.0.
Remove PH/QI sections and mentions.
* lisp/obsolete/eudcb-ph.el: Make obsolete.
* lisp/net/eudc-vars.el (eudc-known-protocols): Remove ph.
(eudc-ph-bbdb-conversion-alist): Make obsolete.
* etc/NEWS: Mention this.  (Bug#21191)
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Thomas Fitzsimmons 2015-12-06 19:33:24 -05:00
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@ -9,11 +9,10 @@
@c %**end of header
@copying
This file documents EUDC v1.30b.
This file documents EUDC version 1.40.0.
EUDC is the Emacs Unified Directory Client, a common interface to
directory servers using various protocols such as LDAP or the CCSO white
pages directory system (PH/QI)
directory servers and contact information.
Copyright @copyright{} 1998, 2000--2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@ -32,7 +31,7 @@ modify this GNU manual.''
@dircategory Emacs network features
@direntry
* EUDC: (eudc). Emacs client for directory servers (LDAP, PH).
* EUDC: (eudc). Emacs client for directory servers (LDAP, BBDB).
@end direntry
@footnotestyle end
@ -41,7 +40,7 @@ modify this GNU manual.''
@title EUDC Manual
@subtitle The Emacs Unified Directory Client
@author by Oscar Figueiredo
@code{1.30b}
@code{1.40.0}
@page
@vskip 0pt plus 1fill
@ -83,8 +82,6 @@ Currently supported back-ends are:
@item
LDAP, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
@item
CCSO PH/QI
@item
BBDB, Big Brother's Insidious Database
@end itemize
@ -109,7 +106,6 @@ Interface to BBDB to let you insert server records into your own BBDB database
@menu
* LDAP:: What is LDAP ?
* CCSO PH/QI:: What is CCSO, PH, QI ?
* BBDB:: What is BBDB ?
@end menu
@ -141,30 +137,6 @@ EUDC requires external support to access LDAP directory servers
(@pxref{LDAP Configuration})
@node CCSO PH/QI
@section CCSO PH/QI
The Central Computing Services Office (CCSO) of the University of
Illinois at Urbana Champaign created and freely distributed a
directory system that was used by many organizations in the 1990s.
The system records information about people such as their address,
phone number, email, academic information or any other details it was
configured to. Nowadays this system is not widely used.
The system consists of two parts: a database server traditionally called
@samp{qi} and a command-line client called @samp{ph}.
@ignore
Until 2010, the code could be downloaded from
@url{http://www-dev.cites.uiuc.edu/ph/}.
@end ignore
The original command-line @samp{ph} client that came with the
@samp{ph/qi} distribution provided additional features that are
not implemented in EUDC, like the possibility to communicate with the
server in login-mode, which made it possible to change records in the
database.
@node BBDB
@section BBDB
@ -175,14 +147,14 @@ and news readers.
It is often used as an enhanced email address book.
EUDC considers BBDB as a directory server back end just like LDAP or
PH/QI servers, though BBDB has no client/server protocol and thus always
resides locally on your machine. The point in this is not to offer an
EUDC considers BBDB as a directory server back end just like LDAP,
though BBDB has no client/server protocol and thus always resides
locally on your machine. The point in this is not to offer an
alternate way to query your BBDB database (BBDB itself provides much
more flexible ways to do that), but rather to offer an interface to your
local directory that is consistent with the interface to external
directories (LDAP, PH/QI). This is particularly interesting when
performing queries on multiple servers.
more flexible ways to do that), but rather to offer an interface to
your local directory that is consistent with the interface to external
LDAP directories. This is particularly interesting when performing
queries on multiple servers.
EUDC also offers a means to insert results from directory queries into
your own local BBDB (@pxref{Creating BBDB Records})
@ -473,7 +445,7 @@ it will be ignored anyway.
@defvar eudc-protocol
The directory protocol to use to query the server. Currently supported
protocols in this version of EUDC are @code{ph}, @code{ldap} and @code{bbdb}.
protocols in this version of EUDC are @code{ldap} and @code{bbdb}.
@end defvar
@deffn Command eudc-set-server
@ -510,11 +482,8 @@ attributes are ignored. Default is @code{t}.
Directory standards may authorize different instances of the same
attribute in a record. For instance the record of a person may contain
several email fields containing different email addresses. When using
a QI directory server this is difficult to distinguish from attributes
having multi-line values such as the postal address that may contain a
line for the street and another one for the zip code and city name. In
both cases, EUDC will consider the attribute duplicated.
several email fields containing different email addresses, in which
case EUDC will consider the attribute duplicated.
EUDC has several methods to deal with duplicated attributes. The
available methods are:
@ -956,39 +925,6 @@ convenience functions to parse phones and addresses.
@end table
@end defvar
The default value of the PH-specific value of that variable is
@code{eudc-ph-bbdb-conversion-alist}:
@lisp
((name . name)
(net . email)
(address . (eudc-bbdbify-address address "Address"))
(phone . ((eudc-bbdbify-phone phone "Phone")
(eudc-bbdbify-phone office_phone "Office Phone"))))
@end lisp
This means that:
@itemize @bullet
@item
the @code{name} field of the BBDB record gets its value
from the @code{name} attribute of the directory record
@item
the @code{net} field of the BBDB record gets its value
from the @code{email} attribute of the directory record
@item
the @code{address} field of the BBDB record is obtained by parsing the
@code{address} attribute of the directory record with the function
@code{eudc-bbdbify-address}
@item
two @code{phone} fields are created (when possible) in the BBDB record.
The first one has @cite{Phone} for location and its value is obtained by
parsing the @code{phone} attribute of the PH/QI record with the function
@code{eudc-bbdbify-phone}. The second one has @cite{Office Phone} for location
its value is obtained by parsing the @code{office_phone} attribute of the
PH/QI record with the function @code{eudc-bbdbify-phone}.
@end itemize
@defun eudc-bbdbify-phone phone location
This is a convenience function provided for use in
@code{eudc-bbdb-conversion-alist}. It parses @var{phone} into a vector

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@ -845,6 +845,8 @@ command line's password prompt.
EUDC's BBDB backend now supports BBDB 3.
EUDC's PH backend (eudcb-ph.el) is obsolete.
** Eshell
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@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ instead."
;; Known protocols (used in completion)
;; Not to be mistaken with `eudc-supported-protocols'
(defvar eudc-known-protocols '(bbdb ph ldap))
(defvar eudc-known-protocols '(bbdb ldap))
(defcustom eudc-server-hotlist nil
"Directory servers to query.
@ -357,6 +357,10 @@ BBDB fields. SPECs are sexps which are evaluated:
(symbol :tag "BBDB Field")
(sexp :tag "Conversion Spec"))))
(make-obsolete-variable 'eudc-ph-bbdb-conversion-alist
"the EUDC PH/QI backend is obsolete."
"25.1")
;;}}}
;;{{{ LDAP Custom Group