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[gaim-migrate @ 10815] (14:24:22) datallah: LSchiere2: http://www.butfer.com/gaim-patches/log_filename_escaping.patch deals with creating logs for screennames that have characters that are not valid for filenames (14:25:34) datallah: i may write a conversion script for existing log files (particularly because it will cause all irc and yahoo chats not to be found) (14:25:49) datallah: oh.. not irc chats... only yahoo chats (14:26:10) LSchiere2: can yahoo chats be found now? (14:26:35) datallah: yeah... they all have a ':' in them which is not a valid filename character in win32 (14:26:51) LSchiere2: i see. so they can be found on unix but not on win32 (14:27:51) datallah: LSchiere2: yeah, as far as i know committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

SILC Gaim Plugin
================

This is Gaim protocol plugin of the protocol called Secure Internet Live 
Conferencing (SILC).  The implementation will use the SILC Toolkit, 
freely available from the http://silcnet.org/ site, for the actual SILC 
protocol implementation.

To include the SILC into Gaim, one needs to first compile and install 
the SILC Toolkit.  It is done as follows:

	./configure --enable-shared --without-silcd --without-irssi
	make
	make install

This will compile shared libraries of the SILC Toolkit.  If the --prefix 
is not given to ./configure, the binaries are installed into the 
/usr/local/silc directory.

Once the Toolkit is installed one needs to tell for the Gaim ./configure
script where the SILC Toolkit is located.  It is done as follows:

	./configure --with-silc-libs=/path/to/silc/lib
		    --with-silc-includes=/path/to/silc/include

If the Toolkit cannot be located the SILC will not be compiled into the 
Gaim.