# HG changeset patch # User Eric Warmenhoven # Date 975912689 0 # Node ID fc40fec4ae54130d59e0077b7395a44954b0543e # Parent a97e334ecfa23ad7b708a7b8c88a0991fcd93822 [gaim-migrate @ 1203] Yay! committer: Tailor Script diff -r a97e334ecfa2 -r fc40fec4ae54 NEWS --- a/NEWS Mon Dec 04 06:22:48 2000 +0000 +++ b/NEWS Mon Dec 04 06:51:29 2000 +0000 @@ -10,6 +10,16 @@ of the important / commands will be added before the final release. Also, if someone could send me some good buddylist pixmaps for the irc plugin then I'd much appreciate it. + Eric: So what was Yay! For Gaim!? Yay was the codename for the Yahoo plugin. The whole + point of all of these changes was I wanted to make a proof-of-concept plugin that would + let Gaim sign into Yahoo. It turned out to be pretty much impossible with the old code. So, + Rob and I hacked gaim so we could do just that. There's now a whole new class of plugins, + Protocol Plugins, that let users dynamically add new protocols to Gaim. Just load the + plugin, and create a new account that uses that protocol, and you're set! Yay! (Oscar and + TOC are both still static. Gaim is, after all, primarily an AIM client.) + + Lots of people have been very generous and contributed a lot of time and effort to writing + some really nice patches for gaim since the last release. To all of you, a big thanks. 0.10.3 (10/09/2000): Rob: I am dumb.