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Use glib's base64 encode and decode functions if they're available. Our purple_base64_decode() implementation is horrendously ineffecient, by the way. It allocates memory inside a while loop while decoding. It should allocate memory ahead of time (the glib version does this). The glib version is here if anyone wants to steal it: http://git.gnome.org./cgit/glib/tree/glib/gbase64.c

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.