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The second msn-p13-merge-head.diff.gz from SF Patch #162854 from Ka-Hing Cheung. "A little late, but here is a version that should remember your friendly name. Also has a fix for a crasher when MSN sends you back: <faultstring>Need to do full sync. Can't sync deltas Client has too old a copy for us to do a delta sync</faultstring> In this case, I make gaim re-request the full contact list/address book. I haven't look too deeply into the reverse list problem, but I think the solution would involve caching the reverse list, which may require extending the privacy api."

For information on writing a plugin for Gaim, go
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/api/ and 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 Gaim
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.

This next paragraph is old and possibly out of date:
Compilation of the plugins is fairly straight-forward; there is a
Makefile in this directory that has a rule for making the .so file
from a .c file. No modification of the Makefile should be necessary,
unless if you simply want to type 'make' to have it made; otherwise,
'make filename.so' will take filename.c and make the .so plugin from
it. If you need to link in with extra libraries, you can set the
environment variable PLUGIN_LIBS to be the libraries you want to link
with.

It should be possible to compile plugins outside of the Gaim source
tree, which is a much cleaner solution.