annotate PLUGIN_HOWTO @ 30223:f30a02140f74

Create the ~/.purple/plugins directory on startup if it does not exist already, because the absence of this directory causes a surprising amount of confusion for users told to put their plugins there Also get rid of our SIGHUP handler, because it does nothing

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the
HOWTOs in the "Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.