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jabber: Stricter checks on the send_raw prpl function. This (should) avoids a crash in the gtalkinvisible plugin as seen in a crash log from #pidgin. The plugin is trying to send a stanza as the (eventual) result of the signing-on signal, which is before prpl_info->login() is called. Call stack: jabber_send_raw protocols/jabber/jabber.c:443 jabber_prpl_send_raw protocols/jabber/jabber.c:548 6EA0122D plugins\gtalkinvisible.dll plugin_invisible_cb gtalkinvisible.c:147 67D0410B purple_signal_emit_vargs signals.c:465 67D04217 purple_signal_emit signals.c:436 67CFB75F purple_prpl_change_account_status prpl.c:389 67D09B3F status_has_changed status.c:669 67CC4409 purple_account_set_status_list account.c:1783 67CC4717 purple_account_set_status account.c:1752 67D00F18 purple_savedstatus_activate_for_account savedstatuses.c:1174 67D01899 purple_savedstatus_set_idleaway savedstatuses.c:887 67CE5D13 check_idleness idle.c:193 67D0410B purple_signal_emit_vargs signals.c:465 67D04217 purple_signal_emit signals.c:436 67CD9F34 _purple_connection_new connection.c:157 67CC56C1 purple_account_connect account.c:1216

If you plan to use Pidgin, Finch and libpurple from our Monotone repository,
PLEASE read this message in its entirety!

Pidgin, Finch, and libpurple are a fast-moving project with a somewhat regular
release schedule.  Due to the rate of development, the code in our Monotone
repository undergoes frequent bursts of massive changes, often leaving behind
brokenness and partial functionality while the responsible developers rewrite
some portion of code or seek to add new features.

What this all boils down to is that the code in our Monotone repository _WILL_
sometimes be broken.  Because of this, we ask that users who are not interested
in personally tracking down bugs and fixing them (without a lot of
assistance from the developers!) use only released versions.  Since releases
will be made often, this should not prevent anyone from using the newest,
shiniest features -- but it will prevent users from having to deal with ugly
development bugs that we already know about but haven't gotten around to fixing.

If you are interested in hacking on Pidgin, Finch, and/or libpurple, please
check out the information available at: http://developer.pidgin.im

By far the best documentation, however, is the documented code.  If you have
doxygen, you can run "make docs" in the toplevel directory to generate pretty
documentation.  Otherwise (or even if you do!), the header files for each
subsystem contain documentation for the functions they contain.  For instance,
conversation.h contains documentation for the entire purple_conversation_*
API, and account.h contains documentation for the purple_account_* API.

If you have questions, please feel free to contact the Pidgin, Finch, and
libpurple developers by email at [e-mail] or on IRC at irc.freenode.net
in #pidgin.  Please do as much homework as you can before contacting us; the
more you know about your question, the faster and more effectively we can help!

Patches should be posted as Trac tickets at: http://developer.pidgin.im