view PLUGIN_HOWTO @ 30553:a83167dd305c

And another one just like 94fa017925fa206fc36f520ee42c54f57429b4e1. But this time, the switchboard might not get destroyed immediately, so you'd get it trying to destroy the slplink when it times out instead. I think this fixes #12043.

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.