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[gaim-migrate @ 4908] Big Changes: -Rewrote some of the perl stuff so perl scripts can change a few of their parameters -Receiving a file with AIM over oscar works pretty well Now, the "nitty gritty": Very minor change to prefs.c: In the plugins details tab, I changed "URL" to "Web Site." I was just going to fix the tabbing, but silvestrij suggested changing it to "Web site," and I thought that sounded good. I think it fits better, too. I dunno, maybe that's just me. "Get Capabilities" has stopped working for some reason. I'm just going to blame AOL. It's really not important anyway, and some people wanted it taken off. It is now #ifdef 0'ed out. I'll remove it completely if it continues to no longer function. I took out a few plugin_event calls from oscar.c and put them in core code. "event_error" should be, uh, "evented" when there is an error signing on. Hopefully no one was using this. It's really pretty useless. The parameter is now the reason for not being able to connect rather than the archaic toc error code. I screwed around with how perl functions are called some. There was way the hell too much malloc'ing going on here. I think all in all it's an improvement, though I'm still not a big fan of how changes to parameters propagate to the actual memory. I really think it would be nice if the perl stuff was made into a C plugin. It's just so much cleaner. Especially if someone wanted to write, say, a python or tcl interpreter. That's how xchat2 does it. I just think that would be really slick. Like butter. Or ice. Very unlike Velcro. I added a "Change Password" Protocol Action for ICQ over oscar. This was really pretty easy. I'd like to thank my housemate Andrew for complaining a lot that having to use Windows ICQ to change his password was a pain. I rewrote a lot of the oscar file transfer stuff to use Christian's new xfer interface. This involved moving a few functions from ft.c to im.c, where they belong. I also removed all the #if 0'ed getfile functions. I'll be rewritting them soonish. Receiving a file should work perfectly, aside from maybe a small memleak when stuff is canceled. Sending a file is currently disabled. No ETA on when I'll have that working. I renamed pretty much all of the functions in im.c so they have kind of a scheme now. They should all be aim_im_bleh, since "im" is the family name. There comes a time when you must break the crap out of any clients that might be using libfaim in order to make stuff cleaner. Maybe. I got rid of the snac destructor stuff for now. I'll probably add it back later. I wasn't entirely comfortable with how it was done. 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)