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1 If you plan to use Pidgin, Finch and libpurple from our Monotone repository,
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2 PLEASE read this message in its entirety!
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3
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4 Pidgin, Finch, and libpurple are a fast-moving project with a somewhat regular
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5 release schedule. Due to the rate of development, the code in our Monotone
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6 repository undergoes frequent bursts of massive changes, often leaving behind
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7 brokenness and partial functionality while the responsible developers rewrite
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8 some portion of code or seek to add new features.
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10 What this all boils down to is that the code in our Monotone repository _WILL_
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11 sometimes be broken. Because of this, we ask that users who are not interested
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12 in personally tracking down bugs and fixing them (without a lot of
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13 assistance from the developers!) use only released versions. Since releases
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14 will be made often, this should not prevent anyone from using the newest,
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15 shiniest features -- but it will prevent users from having to deal with ugly
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16 development bugs that we already know about but haven't gotten around to fixing.
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18 If you are interested in hacking on Pidgin, Finch, and/or libpurple, please
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19 check out the information available at: http://developer.pidgin.im
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21 By far the best documentation, however, is the documented code. If you have
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22 doxygen, you can run "make docs" in the toplevel directory to generate pretty
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23 documentation. Otherwise (or even if you do!), the header files for each
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24 subsystem contain documentation for the functions they contain. For instance,
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25 conversation.h contains documentation for the entire purple_conversation_*
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26 API, and account.h contains documentation for the purple_account_* API.
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28 If you have questions, please feel free to contact the Pidgin, Finch, and
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29 libpurple developers by email at devel@pidgin.im or on IRC at irc.freenode.net
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30 in #pidgin. Please do as much homework as you can before contacting us; the
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31 more you know about your question, the faster and more effectively we can help!
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33 Patches should be posted as Trac tickets at: http://developer.pidgin.im