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[gaim-migrate @ 10430] " These 2 patches (one or the other, they are mutually exclusive) fix a slight bug in the gaim_conv_chat_add_user (it was not emitting the user's flags in the chat joining/joined signals). The 1st patch (gaim-0.81cvs-chat-join-signal-fix.patch) just fixes that bug, and nothing else. The 2nd patch (gaim-0.81cvs-chat-join-signal-fix-and-change.patch) also changes the joining/leaving signals to boolean signals to allow a plugin to optionally prevent the display of users joining and leaving chats. This would allow us to respond to "How do I turn off the display of users joinging and leaving a chat?" with "Write a plugin", instead of "You can't"." --Stu Tomlinson - nosnilmot should we be updating the ChangeLog.API? 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)