# HG changeset patch
# User Herman Bloggs <hermanator12002@yahoo.com>
# Date 1039618545 0
# Node ID e074172f4a410b468c42896bcb80de60e011e47a
# Parent  890b4f1318df47ec24b35b260bd49839dd276cd9
[gaim-migrate @ 4272]
note on gaim dirs

committer: Tailor Script <tailor@pidgin.im>

diff -r 890b4f1318df -r e074172f4a41 PROGRAMMING_NOTES
--- a/PROGRAMMING_NOTES	Wed Dec 11 14:44:10 2002 +0000
+++ b/PROGRAMMING_NOTES	Wed Dec 11 14:55:45 2002 +0000
@@ -12,6 +12,18 @@
 - Make sure when including win32dep.h that it is the last header to
   be included.
 
+Paths
+-----
+
+- 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
 ----------------