annotate PROGRAMMING_NOTES @ 4102:c5ce82228a2f

[gaim-migrate @ 4317] Cooley enough, @mac.com screen names can sign on without any additional changes. There are a few problems, though. This fixes one of them: -SNAC error saying "Not supported by host" or something similar at signon, because gaim requests a redirect to the email notification server, but this is not supported for ICQ and @mac.com accounts (I don't know why ICQ accounts don't give the error). Anyway, so this fixes the problem by only requesting the redirect if the screen name has an email address associated with it. I made it so the auth reply info is stored in the oscar session struct. There are some other useful variables there, and I think it's just cleaner to store the whole thing than the little bits and pieces. I heard someone complain about [e-mail] spam, so I'm thinking it'd be good if there were a way to disable those types of messages. WinICQ has a nice little preferences thingy, I think. I dunno, maybe I could add a checkbox to the account window? committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

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.

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");

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)