view README.CVS @ 8230:4e354776ae2a

[gaim-migrate @ 8953] "Well sf seems to be in read only mode. This patch makes the progress bar in the room list dialog pulse slower. Previously it pulsed every time a new room was received, and had a pulse step of 10 until 100 rooms were downloaded, and then switched to a pulse step of 100. Now it pulses every time a room is received but no more than once every 100ms. And the pulse step stays constant at 10. This should fix the "my connection is so far the progress bar is sucking up all my cpu" problem some lucky individuals have had. Since my connection isn't that fast, I'm not completely sure how well it works, but it seems good to me. Simguy tells me it's better. If you want to test you'll need to download the list on undernet on irc, or something like that. Other protocols tend to download it too fast to really see the progress bar. --Tim Ringenbach" committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

If you plan to use gaim CVS, PLEASE read this message in its entirety!

Gaim is a fast-moving project with a somewhat regular release schedule.  
Due to the rate of gaim development, CVS undergoes frequent bursts of 
massive changes, often leaving behind brokenness and partial 
functionality while the responsible developers rewrite some portion of 
code or seek to add new features.

What this all boils down to is that CVS _WILL_ sometimes be broken.
Because of this, we ask that users who are not interested in
personally tracking down bugs and fixing them (without a lot of
assistance from the developers!) avoid CVS and use releases.  Since
releases will be made often, this should not prevent anyone from using
the newest, shiniest features -- but it will prevent users from having
to deal with ugly development bugs that we already know about but
haven't gotten around to fixing.

If you are interested in hacking on gaim, please read README and
HACKING, and take note of the issues in PROGRAMMING_NOTES.  (Note that
they may be somewhat out of date at times.) Win32 developers, please
read README.mingw.

By far the best documentation, however, is the documented code.  Not
all parts of gaim have yet been documented, but the major subsystems
are falling fast.  If you have doxygen, you can use the Doxyfile in
the toplevel directory to generate pretty documentation.  Otherwise
(or even if you do!), the header files for each subsystem contain
documentation for the functions they contain.  For instance,
conversation.h contains documentation for the entire
gaim_conversation_* API, and account.h contains documentation for the
gaim_account_* API.

If you have questions, please feel free to contact the gaim developers
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as you can before contacting us; the more you know about your
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