annotate src/protocols/silc/README @ 8866:c2dff943e240

[gaim-migrate @ 9634] (14:10:22) Faceprint: the timestamp plugin will now mislead users (14:10:54) Me: which way does ichat behave? (14:10:58) Me: i think the new way (14:11:05) Me: but its been some time since i've seen it (14:11:09) Faceprint: i don't know or care, the new behavior will confuse the hell out of people (14:11:22) Faceprint: lets say we have a conversation (14:11:25) Faceprint: 2:00 gets printed by the plugin (14:11:36) Faceprint: then we say nothing for 3 hours (14:11:42) Faceprint: and then one of us says something (14:12:04) Faceprint: that will be printed, and then as many as 5 minutes later, the plugin will print 5:05 (14:12:23) Me: yes yes yes, i see both sides of this one. i tend to think the new behavior is better, but i'll revert it (14:12:36) Faceprint: since "normal" timestamps are turned off, it appears as though what was just said was said around 2 (14:12:43) Faceprint: no, don't revert, fix (14:12:53) Faceprint: preferably, make the patch writer fix (14:12:57) Me: *nods* (14:13:06) Me: which requires reverting since otherwise he won't be motivated (14:13:13) Faceprint: if something is said and we've gone more than 5 min w/o printing a timestamp, print a timestamp before writing to the conv 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.