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[gaim-migrate @ 7810] I added some deps to the rpm, those should be there, right? Also... [ 821937 ] Fix for away message tooltip In Gaim 0.71, the tooltip text for Oscar is not properly escaped. This causes away messages such as "failed <-- this is a fact, not a prediction" to break the tooltip. Other protocols do not have this issue, since they call g_markup_escape_text() in the appropriate places. The call to gaim_markup_strip_html() is not sufficient in cases such as the example, since complete HTML tags are not present but HTML special characters are. This patch simply calls g_markup_escape_text() before adding the away message to the tooltip text. Patch is against the 0.71 source, since I don't think anoymous CVS is up-to-date. --Daniel Westermann-Clark (potpieman) committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

Notes on keeping GAIM OS independant
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General
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- Use G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S and G_DIR_SEPARATOR for paths

- Use g_getenv, g_snprintf, g_vsnprintf

- Use gaim_home_dir instead of g_get_home_dir or g_getenv("HOME")

- Make sure when including win32dep.h that it is the last header to
  be included.

- Open binary files when reading or writing with 'b' mode.

  e.g: fopen("somefile", "wb");

  Not doing so will open files in windows using defaut translation mode. 
  i.e. newline -> <CR><LF>

Paths
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- DATADIR, LOCALEDIR & LIBDIR are defined in wingaim as functions.
  Doing the following will therefore break the windows build:

  printf("File in DATADIR is: %s\n", DATADIR G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S "pic.png");

  it should be:

  printf("File in DATADIR is: %s%s%s\n", DATADIR, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S, "pic.png");

- When writing out paths to .gaimrc, use wgaim_escape_dirsep. This is necessary
  because the Windows dir separator '\' is being used to escape characters, when
  paths are read in from the .gaimrc file.

PLUGINS & PROTOS
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- G_MODULE_EXPORT all functions which are to be accessed from outside the
  scope of its "dll" or "so". (E.G. gaim_plugin_init)

- G_MODULE_IMPORT all global variables which are located outside your
  dynamic library. (E.G. connections)

  (Not doing this will cause "Memory Access Violations" in Win32)