Changes

=== 9 Feb 2008, nsIAddrBookSession dropped and merged into nsIAbManager === A few days ago (2nd Feb in fact), I checked in a patch from {{bug|410158}} that dropped nsIAddrBookSession and merged its interface functions in nsIAbManager. This provides us with just one central address book service where add/remove books can take place, and also where to go to for listening for updates. === 16 Dec 2007, nsIAddressBook replaced by nsIAbManager === Yesterday, I checked in For latest news keep an eye on the final patch in a set of patches that changed nsIAddressBook to be a service and renamed it to [http://mxrplanet.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/mailnews/addrbook/public/nsIAbManagerplanet.mozilla.idl nsIAbManagerorg blog feeds]. The main thing to note is that nsIAbManager is a service and should be obtained via getService/do_GetService. nsIAbManager is intended to become the "heart" of the address book with its main aim to allow management of the address books and the notification system. We hope to soon merge the listener/notification functions from nsIAddrBookSession into it as well as other improvements to its functionality. === 30 Nov 2007, Automated Tests for Address Book. === We've just checked in {{bug|405147}} on trunk. This has provided automated unit tests for some of the nsIAbDirectory functionality (or more specifically the nsAbMDBDirectory implementation of it - the Mork-based local address books). The unit tests will be run every time the [http://tinderboxccgi.mozillastandard8.org/SeaMonkey/ SeaMonkey tinderbox] build SeaMonkey on Linuxplus. We hope to be extending it to one of the [http:com//tinderbox.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/ Thunderbird tinderboxesblog Mark's] soon {{bug|406227}}. This is good news for us, as it'll mean regressions in functions will be quickly picked up, and it also provides us with a basis to extend the unit tests to more areas of address book, and into the rest of MailNews. More information about the automated tests can be found here: [http://developerquetzalcoatal.mozillablogspot.org/en/docscom/Mozilla_automated_testing] === 22 Nov 2007, Palm Sync re-enabled on SeaMonkey trunk builds === With thanks to some help from the Mozilla build team, we've now got Palm Sync re-enabled for SeaMonkeyJoshua's main trunk builds. This should help with testing. We hope Thunderbird will follow soon ({{bug|405012}}). === 19 Aug 2007, Read-only integration with Mac OS X Address Book === Trunk (SeaMonkey 2.0a1pre/Thunderbird 3.0a1pre) nightly builds now have the capability to access the Mac OS X address book in a read-only fashion. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203927#c169 for how to set it up. Bugs/issues with the integration should be filed as new bugs after having first checked for duplicates] blogs.

The [[MailNews:Address Book RoadMap|roadmap]] isn't always detailed but gives a general short-long to medium term outlook on where the address book is heading. The roadmap also gives some idea of the work currently in progress.

UnfortunatelyThe roadmap also gives some idea of the work currently in progress. We try to predict where something will land, we canbut it doesn't give timescales as time available for always happen due to developers is limitedneeding to work on other things.