annotate PLUGIN_HOWTO @ 27556:cbee8aecc90a

Free the buddy list data some more at shutdown and some deprecations. I think these deprecations are reasonable. Basically, purple_blist_init should create a PurpleBuddyList*, so each UI doesn't need to do that. The UI data for the PurpleBuddyList is more tightly coupled with the PurpleBuddyList and purple_blist_destroy is called in purple_blist_uninit (and is fully cleaned up now). As libpurple works currently, I believe it's not really possible to have multiple PurpleBuddyLists around (blist.c relies on a single global variable) and when it was discussed on the mailing list a few months ago, nobody was using it as such. Refs #9253 (going to milestone 3.0.0 it).

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the HOWTOs in the
"Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.