comparison HACKING @ 706:a9758452f3c4

[gaim-migrate @ 716] just some doc updates committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

705:dcf672c5a1ff

tutorial on how gaim works. I'll quickly describe the logical flow of
things, then what you'll find in each of the source files. Hopefully
that's enough to get most of you going.

There's one little thing that's just a pet peeve, and it's really stupid.
In ./configure there's and --enable-debug option. This does two things:
compiles with -Wall, and prints debugging information to stdout. The
debugging information is printed to the debug window (which can be turned
on in the preferences) whether or not --enable-debug was selected. Most
of the information that's printed is useless anyway though; so the
--enable-debug option really doesn't do a whole lot.

TOC, and calls oscar_login or toc_login appropriately. We'll assume TOC
for the rest of this discussion; Oscar has a lot of bad hacks to get it
working that I don't even want to think about.

After you're signed in (I'll skip that discussion - I doubt many people
are going to change the login process, since it pretty much just folows
PROTOCOL), Gaim draws the buddy list by calling show_buddy_list, and
waits for input from two places: the server and the user. The first place
it gets input from after signon is invariably the server, when the server
tells Gaim which buddies are signed on.

706:a9758452f3c4

tutorial on how gaim works. I'll quickly describe the logical flow of
things, then what you'll find in each of the source files. Hopefully
that's enough to get most of you going.

There's one little thing that's just a pet peeve, and it's really stupid.
In ./configure there's an --enable-debug option. This does two things:
compiles with -Wall, and prints debugging information to stdout. The
debugging information is printed to the debug window (which can be turned
on in the preferences) whether or not --enable-debug was selected. Most
of the information that's printed is useless anyway though; so the
--enable-debug option really doesn't do a whole lot.

TOC, and calls oscar_login or toc_login appropriately. We'll assume TOC
for the rest of this discussion; Oscar has a lot of bad hacks to get it
working that I don't even want to think about.

After you're signed in (I'll skip that discussion - I doubt many people
are going to change the login process, since it pretty much just follows
PROTOCOL), Gaim draws the buddy list by calling show_buddy_list, and
waits for input from two places: the server and the user. The first place
it gets input from after signon is invariably the server, when the server
tells Gaim which buddies are signed on.