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[gaim-migrate @ 9634] (14:10:22) Faceprint: the timestamp plugin will now mislead users (14:10:54) Me: which way does ichat behave? (14:10:58) Me: i think the new way (14:11:05) Me: but its been some time since i've seen it (14:11:09) Faceprint: i don't know or care, the new behavior will confuse the hell out of people (14:11:22) Faceprint: lets say we have a conversation (14:11:25) Faceprint: 2:00 gets printed by the plugin (14:11:36) Faceprint: then we say nothing for 3 hours (14:11:42) Faceprint: and then one of us says something (14:12:04) Faceprint: that will be printed, and then as many as 5 minutes later, the plugin will print 5:05 (14:12:23) Me: yes yes yes, i see both sides of this one. i tend to think the new behavior is better, but i'll revert it (14:12:36) Faceprint: since "normal" timestamps are turned off, it appears as though what was just said was said around 2 (14:12:43) Faceprint: no, don't revert, fix (14:12:53) Faceprint: preferably, make the patch writer fix (14:12:57) Me: *nods* (14:13:06) Me: which requires reverting since otherwise he won't be motivated (14:13:13) Faceprint: if something is said and we've gone more than 5 min w/o printing a timestamp, print a timestamp before writing to the conv 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)