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[gaim-migrate @ 15978] Holy cow this is crazy. 34 files changed, 5760 insertions(+), 8517 deletions(-) * Non-blocking I/O for all of oscar. That includes normal FLAP connections as well as file transfers and direct IM. * Kick-ass file transfer and direct IM. Either party can request the connection. Gaim will try both the "public" IP and the "client" IP. It'll fall back to transferring through a proxy if that fails. Should be relatively few memleaks (I didn't have a lot of confidence in the non-memleakiness of the old code). And the code is reasonably generic, so it shouldn't be too much work to add voice chat. This might still be a LITTLE buggy, but it shouldn't be too bad. If anything, file transfer will be more buggy than direct IM. And sending a file will be more buggy than receiving a file. Bug reports with a series of steps to reproduce are welcome. * I merged OscarData and aim_session_t * Somewhere between 50 and 100 hours of work. committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

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