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[gaim-migrate @ 1850] reworked some of the proxy stuff so that it's non-blocking now. next thing to do is to get IRC, MSN, Napster, and Jabber to use the new proxy_connect code. After that, Oscar and Yahoo (maybe Zephyr too? not likely) committer: Tailor Script <tailor@pidgin.im>
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1 libjabber README
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2 Jabber Documentation Team
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3 March 27, 2000
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4 ____________________________________________________________
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6 Table of Contents
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9 1. Introduction
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11 1.1 General
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12 1.2 What This Package Is
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26 1. Introduction
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30 This document gives pointers for information on this package as well
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31 as links to learn more about the Jabber project and about
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34 Copyright information can be found in each package directory in the
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35 files "COPYRIGHT" and "COPYING."
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37 1.2. What This Package Is
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47 Apart from your standard UNIX fare, this package is dependent on the
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50 o libxode, available from http://download.jabber.org/
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54 To install as super user do the following in the libjabber root directory:
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66 Submit bug reports at http://bugs.jabber.org.
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68 For additional real-time support, many members of the development team
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69 frequent jabber groupchat in jdev@conference.jabber.org and irc at
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77 For general information about Jabber, including a quick introduction
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82 There are many areas of Jabber that developers can contribute to.
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86 You may want to delve into the internals of the Jabber project at
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90 Just go on over to http://jabber.org/ and register. You may also
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91 sign up for the main Jabber mailing list (JDEV).