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[gaim-migrate @ 7181] Danilo Segan writes: "Aleksandar has updated some of the translation, and I've updated the other part. So, attached is the new Serbian (sr.po) and Serbian Latin (sr@Latn.po) translation -- both files are gzipped. Because of some updates, it seems that translators are also creditted now: please use the following in that case: Danilo Segan <dsegan@gmx.net> Aleksandar Urosevic <urke@users.sourceforge.net> If you cannot put both names, you can put mine in the "previous translators" list, and Aleksandar's in the "current translators" (though, we're both actively supporting the translation ;-)." committer: Tailor Script <tailor@pidgin.im>
author Luke Schierer <lschiere@pidgin.im>
date Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:32:26 +0000
parents 10b5ac17fdd6
children da88e2cd5c53
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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)