annotate PROGRAMMING_NOTES @ 12285:af257d8679fe

[gaim-migrate @ 14589] Ok, so I'm changing the semantics of gaim_account_notify_added, having it check for the existance of a buddy was breaking some jabber scenarios. So buddy checks should now be done in the prpls. I also added a gaim_account_request_add. _notify_added only notifies the user of the add, request_add notifies the user AND asks them if they want to add the buddy to their buddy list. I only updated jabber for these changes because it's the only protocol I really know at all well. So everyone PLEASE make sure that the other protocols get updated for this. That is make sure that when you expect to prompt the user to add the buddy you use _request_add instead of just using _notify_added and expecting the core to determine if it needs to prompt the user. Oh, there are also some other jabber changes which should hopefully fix some issues that people were seeing, like buddies not signing off when you unsubscribed with them, etc. Let me know if anyone notices any jabber oddities after this. committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

Notes on keeping GAIM OS independant
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General
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- Use G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S and G_DIR_SEPARATOR for paths

- Use g_getenv, g_snprintf, g_vsnprintf

- Use gaim_home_dir instead of g_get_home_dir or g_getenv("HOME")

- Make sure when including win32dep.h that it is the last header to
  be included.

- Open binary files when reading or writing with 'b' mode.

  e.g: fopen("somefile", "wb");

  Not doing so will open files in windows using defaut translation mode. 
  i.e. newline -> <CR><LF>

Paths
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- DATADIR, LOCALEDIR & LIBDIR are defined in wingaim as functions.
  Doing the following will therefore break the windows build:

  printf("File in DATADIR is: %s\n", DATADIR G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S "pic.png");

  it should be:

  printf("File in DATADIR is: %s%s%s\n", DATADIR, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S, "pic.png");

PLUGINS & PROTOS
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- G_MODULE_EXPORT all functions which are to be accessed from outside the
  scope of its "dll" or "so". (E.G. gaim_plugin_init)

- G_MODULE_IMPORT all global variables which are located outside your
  dynamic library. (E.G. connections)

  (Not doing this will cause "Memory Access Violations" in Win32)