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[gaim-migrate @ 231] Added on the beginnings of file sending. Win clients can now figure out which file you're *trying* to send them, but can't get it. The AIM method of Get File is really fscked up, IMHO. I don't know if any of you are familiar with it, but I'll describe it. Some user decides they want to download a file from another user, so they choose Get File. It then returns a list of files available from that person, and they can choose which ones they want to download. The other person can't decide on a user-by-user basis which files are listed, only if any files are listed at all (not allowing people to download them). The way I'm going to implement it is when someone gets a message that another person is trying to download a file from them, it asks them which file they want to make available. You can only do one file at a time this way, but that's tough if you want to be downloading more than one file. Use gnutella or FTP or something that's better designed for it than AIM. But the way the win AIM clients are now, it acts as a public ftp server, and I think it shouldn't. committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

Note:

The plugins that come with GAIM are for educational purposes only.
We have released them hoping to give you guys enough information to
go on.  We'll continue developing them in our free time but we ask you
to do the same.  If you have any suggestions for them, let us know.

If you do not wish to enable the plugin support within GAIM, run the
./configure script with the --disable-plugins option and recompile your
source code.  This will prevent the ability to load plugins.

'make install' puts the plugins in $PREFIX/lib/gaim (PREFIX being what you
specified when you ./configure'd - it defaults to /usr/local). Gaim looks
for the plugins in $HOME/.gaim/plugins/ by default, but they do not have
to be there to use them. Also, plugins have a .so extension by default,
though they do not have to.

Enjoy and Happy Hacking!

Rob Flynn