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[gaim-migrate @ 11428] I reworked Fernando Herrera's patch from September to show who you've blocked and who doesn't have you on their MSN buddy list as emblems. I reworked Evan Schoenberg's patch to more accurately render formatting in messages sent to yourself on MSN Applied part of a patch from Felipe Contreras to fix auto-login to hotmail for new mail (the other part was to make it work on win32, but I think that's no longer needed), and I made sure that the temporary file used is deleted at the end of the session (mentioned in patch 1059682 by Nigel Horne) Applied patch 1073317 by Nigel Horne - even though I think it may not be strictly necessary, it's probably safer like this. I'm committing Felipe's new MSN icon too, I think it's much better, and so does everyone else who's expressed an opinion. 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)