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[gaim-migrate @ 16442] It is currently possible for yourself to not show up in your own buddy list at signon with Jabber. To reproduce: 1. Sign on and add yourself to your buddy list 2. Sign off and exit Gaim 3. Delete your blist.xml 4. Sign on The same bug would also appear when signing into your Jabber account using Gaim for the first time. Normally this works because the Jabber PRPL fakes showing your status whenever jabber_presence_send() is called. However, the call to jabber_presence_send() can happen BEFORE we receive the roster from the server (it usually does, I think) so the PRPL tries to set the status for yourself, but your GaimBuddy node doesn't exist yet. 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");

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)