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Get rid fo purple_strlcpy and purple_strlcat. These are convenience functions that call g_strlcpy and g_strlcat. They're only mildly convenient, though. And only used in one place. The reason I don't like them is that I think it's easy to use them incorrectly. It's easy to use the functions and not realize that they use sizeof() to determine the size of the destination buffer. I think it's too easy to accidentally use these functions with a string on the heap (which wouldn't work correctly).

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the
HOWTOs in the "Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.