annotate PROGRAMMING_NOTES @ 4151:1a5dcfa1823e

[gaim-migrate @ 4377] Why do I make these things so long? I'm defective, that's why. Mr. Walp pointed out a problem with "allow only peeps in my buddy list" for ICQ, so I fixed that. One important problem: If you set your permdeny to "allow only peeps in my buddy list," and then add or remove someone from your buddy list, it will not update the allow/deny list on the server. And that's a bad thing. I changed an error message string or 4 in oscar.c for various reasons. 1) I feel that "he/she" is much better than "it." If you disagree, please let me know, because I'm not sure of the correct phrasing. 2) There is only 1 unknown reason, it just applies to multiple messages. I shuffled some of the clientauto functions around in oscar.c to make it more uniform. I intend to look into why status messages aren't working well soon. I added some semblance of more advanced ICQ info support to libfaim. There's also a bit of support in oscar.c for it, but making it display itself nicely will take a little work, so I'll do it later. A patch from the good Mr. Blanton taking out a non-ascii character from oscar.c (my bad). A patch from the good Mr. Blanton adding support for i18n to away messages and aim profile info. Questions for the good Mr. Blanton: 1) Line 59 of info.c, in the first half of that if statement, should profile_len also be &&'ed in with the other 2? 2) I changed a gaim_parse_user_info so that it works for non-unicode away messages and profiles. Or so I think. 3) I changed little bits of your patch to appease my annoyingness, so it might not cvs update cleanly for you. Sorry. I organized the ChangeLog entries for 0.60. I tried to put stuff that I thought was more important near the top of each category. Please change stuff around, because I'm pretty sure it could be better. Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out... Tied to a wheel... 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.

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");

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)