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[gaim-migrate @ 1019] command-line options for the app. not for the applet because most of the time you don't run it from the command line anyway. thanks bmiller committer: Tailor Script <tailor@pidgin.im>
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1 STATUS of GAIM CVS tree. Last modified $Date: 2000-10-16 16:14:18 -0400 (Mon, 16 Oct 2000) $ by $Author: warmenhoven $.
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3 This file is meant to provide gaim users who use the CVS version to see whether
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4 they actually want to compile what they just checked out. Gaim CVS is usually
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5 relatively stable (we use it all the time), but has tendencies to be quirky at
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6 times.
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9 OVERALL
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10 =======
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12 The current CVS tree is completely broken. You can still use it to sign in and
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13 converse with users as normal. If you only have one account signed in then all
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14 of the old functions still work perfectly (or as well as they did before The
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15 Change (multiple connections)).
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17 There are a lot of things that are probably going to be very buggy over the
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18 next month or so. Please bear with us.
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21 MULTIPLE CONNECTIONS
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22 ====================
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24 I'm impressed that this is working. It took a major restructuring of the
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25 internals of gaim. Everything had been based around one connection, and that
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26 connection used one protocol or the other. Now, there are many connections, and
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27 each connection may be using a different protocol. Most of the functionality is
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28 complete but the UI hasn't been updated to reflect all of the different users.
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29 This change isn't going to be complete for quite some time so just bear with us
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30 as we try to get things operational again.
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33 BUDDY LIST
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36 The buddy list is completely fucked up. It needs to be heavily modified to be
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37 able to support The Change. But logging in as only one user makes it work as
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38 it always did.
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40 This may be changed, but here's how the buddy list cache currently works. When
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41 you sign on it imports the list from the name you sign on as. When the list is
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42 saved, it is saved to all of the signed on users. This means that when you sign
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43 on two or more names at once their lists will be merged.
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46 TOC
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47 ===
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49 TOC is working reasonably well.
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52 Oscar
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55 Oscar is working reasonably well. Please see gaim/libfaim/README.gaim for more
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56 details on Oscar.
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59 Applet
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62 The applet made a comeback sooner than I expected, mostly because I got chat
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63 working. (This means that I'll be using current CVS as my "permanent" gaim,
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64 and I prefer having gaim as an applet.) Anyway, the UI is still shakey (as is
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65 the rest of gaim) but it is at least functional now.
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68 Plugins
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71 The plugin system is mostly up and running again, with multi-connectivity added in
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72 appropriate places. There may still be some bugginess and it lacks some features
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73 that I want to add, but at least it's mostly working again.
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75 Perl
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78 Perl doesn't work at all right now. You can still load and unload perl scripts, but
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79 they won't be able to do very much, unfortunately. I'll get it sorted out as soon as
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80 I figure out how to :-P