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[gaim-migrate @ 9770] "Luke, if you get a chance, could you commit this? It should improve the HTML escaping situation between Gaim and other AIM and ICQ clients. I haven't actually applied it locally or tested it, but it looks ok to me. I would do it myself, but there are other changes in my oscar.c that aren't ready to commit, and I want to go to sleep so I can wake up tomorrow... I'll probably be out of town climbing until Sunday night... "--Mark Doliner "Below is an email I nearly sent you, before deciding to test & document the failure cases I knew of. http://www.nosnilmot.com/gaim/oscar-html.txt shows how current CVS behaves sending the string "<foo>" between GaimICQ/GaimAIM/ICQLite/WinAIM in various combinations After that testing I couldn't help trying to fix it :) The attached patch, from my testing, resolves all those marked with "XX" so that what is received matches what the user sent. The code might not be the most efficient and may contain redundant bits but I've had enough of this for now, 2 Windows crashes which caused VMWare to be weird and half break my keyboard and require restarting X. The patch might want a bit more testing, especially with iChat (I'm unable to test with that). Maybe committing it to CVS might get it some more testing though ;-)" --Stu Tomlinson committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

If you plan to use gaim CVS, PLEASE read this message in its entirety!

Gaim is a fast-moving project with a somewhat regular release schedule.  
Due to the rate of gaim development, CVS undergoes frequent bursts of 
massive changes, often leaving behind brokenness and partial 
functionality while the responsible developers rewrite some portion of 
code or seek to add new features.

What this all boils down to is that CVS _WILL_ sometimes be broken.
Because of this, we ask that users who are not interested in
personally tracking down bugs and fixing them (without a lot of
assistance from the developers!) avoid CVS and use releases.  Since
releases will be made often, this should not prevent anyone from using
the newest, shiniest features -- but it will prevent users from having
to deal with ugly development bugs that we already know about but
haven't gotten around to fixing.

If you are interested in hacking on gaim, please read README and
HACKING, and take note of the issues in PROGRAMMING_NOTES.  (Note that
they may be somewhat out of date at times.) Win32 developers, please
read README.mingw.

By far the best documentation, however, is the documented code.  Not
all parts of gaim have yet been documented, but the major subsystems
are falling fast.  If you have doxygen, you can use the Doxyfile in
the toplevel directory to generate pretty documentation.  Otherwise
(or even if you do!), the header files for each subsystem contain
documentation for the functions they contain.  For instance,
conversation.h contains documentation for the entire
gaim_conversation_* API, and account.h contains documentation for the
gaim_account_* API.

If you have questions, please feel free to contact the gaim developers
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as you can before contacting us; the more you know about your
question, the faster and more effectively we can help you!

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