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This is a patch from Chris Davies to make Bonjour work on Windows using the Apple Bonjour framework. It turns out that the actual DNS-SD library is (3 clause) BSD licensed, so we can use it. There are a few changes by me, mainly to fix the howl implementation. Fixes #1117 . There appear to be a few bugs, but I believe that they were also present previously. I'm hoping to do some more tweaking before the next release. The howl implementation will eventually be supersceded by a native avahi implementation, so I opted for a somewhat dirty hack to enable it instead of doing something with config.h.

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.