view PLUGIN_HOWTO @ 27276:7f43d6779764

Apply [9bac0a540156fb1848eedd61c8630737dee752c7] here as well. I should actually have committed this here first, then plucked to 2.5.8, but by the time I realized this it was too late to fix. Refs #9483.

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the HOWTOs in the
"Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.