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[gaim-migrate @ 10320] " 1. Copied the Slovenian translator's email address from the po file; it seems odd to have <> in about.c but nothing inside the <>. 2. I asked T.M.Thanh what "T.M.Thanh, Gnome Vi Team" exactly refers to (mainly because the literal translation to zh_TW sounds a bit odd, especially with the full stop between the name and the email address), and he replied On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 09:00:48AM -0700, Trinh Minh Thanh wrote: > Hello, > Thanks for your mail. What I like is that : > "T.M.Thanh and Gnome-Vi Team". > Cheers. > > --- Ambrose Li <[e-mail]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > in gaim's about box, your name is listed as > > "T.M.Thanh, Gnome Vi Team". > > > > Does this refer to you and the Gnome Vi Team, > > or does this refer to you as a member of the > > Gnome Vi Team? > > > > Thanks!" --Ambrose C. LI 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");

- When writing out paths to .gaimrc, use wgaim_escape_dirsep. This is necessary
  because the Windows dir separator '\' is being used to escape characters, when
  paths are read in from the .gaimrc file.

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)