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[gaim-migrate @ 9774] " This patch renames the existing received-*-msg signals to receiving-*msg to fit the naming of other signals where a pointer to the message is passed (writing, sending, displaying) It adds new received-*-msg signals which are emitted after the receiving signals, in line with the other conversation signals (wrote, sent, displayed) This is necessary to allow plugins which depend on the final received message to work alongside plugins which may modify the message. One known example of this is festival-gaim alongside gaim-encryption - festival-gaim would try to "speak" the encrypted text: http://sf.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=943216&group_id=89763&atid=591320 I've tested this with gaim-encryption and festival-gaim (locally modified so gaim-encryption uses the receiving signal and festival uses the received signal) All in-tree users of received-*-msg are updated to use receiving-*-msg if they do modify the message, the conversation-signals documentation is updated, the signals-test.c & signal-test.tcl plugins are also updated." --Stu Tomlinson 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)