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[gaim-migrate @ 1116] lots of changes. buddy.c: just in general tried to get things to work better. moving things in the edit list window and signing off should be handled better in the main buddy list window (watch out for flashes). gaim.h: removed toc-specific things and moved them to toc.c and rvous.c as needed. gtkhtml.c: possible fix for AOL 6.0 problems (I wasn't able to reproduce the problem before or after the fix, but i fixed what i think might have been causing the problem). multi.c: moved LOGIN_STEPS from gaim.h here and actually use it now oscar.c: moved an oscar-specific struct definition from gaim.h here and also handle problems better perl.c: fix for stupid problem rvous.c: first pass at attempt to be able to remove toc.c and rvous.c (though this will never happen; gaim will support toc as long as aol does) without cruft. gaim is now only dependent on toc.c and rvous.c for toc_build_config and parse_toc_buddy_list, which gaim needs to save and read its buddy list. toc.c: rewrote the signin process so that the read()'s won't block. it's not actually a non-blocking read; it's just that it won't ever get to the read until there's data to be read (thanks to the gdk_input watcher). this means the cancel button should work after it's connected, but it's still not a non-blocking connect. committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

Note:

The plugins that come with GAIM are for educational purposes only.
We have released them hoping to give you guys enough information to
go on.  We'll continue developing them in our free time but we ask you
to do the same.  If you have any suggestions for them, let us know.

If you do not wish to enable the plugin support within GAIM, run the
./configure script with the --disable-plugins option and recompile your
source code.  This will prevent the ability to load plugins.

'make install' puts the plugins in $PREFIX/lib/gaim (PREFIX being what you
specified when you ./configure'd - it defaults to /usr/local). Gaim looks
for the plugins in that directory by default, but they do not have to be
there to use them. Also, plugins have a .so extension by default, though
they do not have to.

Enjoy and Happy Hacking!

Rob Flynn