annotate src/protocols/silc/README @ 9740:2bb5e2cd64bd

[gaim-migrate @ 10605] " A few days back, someone on #gaim was wondering how to block IM's from IRC, which isn't supported by gaim, as this isn't supported at a protocol level. I decided to implement gaim's privacy options (permit lists, deny lists, block all users, and permit people on buddy list) at a local level for IRC and Zephyr. Jabber, SILC, and Trepia don't seem to support deny or permit lists in Gaim, but I don't use the latter two protocols and wasn't sure about how to implemnt in in Jabber. When implementing it, I noticed that changes in privacy settings didn't automatically cause blist.xml to get scheduled for writing (even on exit). To fix this, I needed to make schedule_blist_save in blist.c non-static and call it from serv_set_permit_deny() in server.c, and gaim_privacy_{permit,deny}_{add,remove} in privacy.c ." --Arun A Tharuvai committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

SILC Gaim Plugin
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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.