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[gaim-migrate @ 10631] "Can someone test this patch, diff'ed with 0.81 (anoncvs is down, as usual). http://javabsp.org/software/gaim/syslog_fd_leak.diff This keeps the double .system 0 length files from being created everytime you list the system log, which for some reason aren't closed (although reading from the code, they should be). Anyhow, since they are not created anymore, they won't waste any fd's. Another change that I've made, previously gaim is logging chats to logs/<prpl>/<my sn>.chat/<chatroom name>/<date-time>, now it's logging to logs/<prpl>/<my sn>/<chatroom name>.chat>/<date-time>. I think this makes more sense. Oh, and gaim_normalize is not meant to be called a second time while expecting the value of the first call to remain what it should be." --Ka-Hing Cheung 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");

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)