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The core portion of the migration code. This is implemented as I described in my e-mail a while back. If we have ~/.gaim and not ~/.purple (or we have ~/.purple, but the "migrating" file exists, indicating an incomplete previous migration), we copy all the files from ~/.gaim to ~/.purple and move and symlink directories, except for plugins and icons. For icons, we move and symlink any subdirectories, as a special case for the Album plugin (written by me). For this to work, it needs to be called by the UIs. Also, the icon migration code is not included in this commit, so I highly recommend you not test this on your main .gaim directory if you want a clean migration.

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.