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Use separate variables to keep track of the timer and the watcher. I believe only one of these will be used at any given time, and so while there is no overlap in their usage we need to use different variables so that we can call either purple_input_remove or purple_timeout_remove depending on the usage. I don't think this matters with glib because purple_input_remove and purple_timeout_remove both call g_source_remove, but it could be an issue when using other event loops. There's also the problem in line 673 where we add the watcher, but then if the call to msn_soap_write_cb fails we add a timer using the same variable. That's still going to be a little buggy.

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.

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doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
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