Revision b88baa91c21ae184cacca425b020f33bcb89ce43
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markdoliner at pidgin.im
Mon Mar 26 01:42:49 EDT 2007
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| Revision: b88baa91c21ae184cacca425b020f33bcb89ce43
| Ancestor: 003015469cdb622dd60c5e0777e6382c563f2e6b
| Author: markdoliner at pidgin.im
| Date: 2007-03-26T05:42:33
| Branch: im.pidgin.pidgin
|
| Modified files:
| AUTHORS ChangeLog ChangeLog.API NEWS PLUGIN_HOWTO README
|
| ChangeLog:
|
| More gaim->whatever isms
|
| ============================================================
| --- AUTHORS 26fe78c9de204b02a48843c8723029194e5711c9
| +++ AUTHORS 3a281d96f2f752c2682fbe116b92a6443af94ab7
| @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
| -Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients that're Good for the Soul
| +Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul
| ==========================================================================
|
| For a complete list of all contributors, see the COPYRIGHT file.
| ============================================================
| --- ChangeLog b8edee413af5f9a9928da091928a7af5de94f98c
| +++ ChangeLog 64a10369b8940319e6e4539f3ffdee1a0f3eb22f
| @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
| -Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients that're good for the soul
| +Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul
|
| version 2.0.0:
| Build Changes:
| ============================================================
| --- ChangeLog.API 393b6a5509b11556df2217f4c42601f22ce9a178
| +++ ChangeLog.API 7d5b4a3e76e446081d5930f73284b1973e3a7a45
| @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
| -Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients that're good for the soul
| +Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul
|
| version 2.0.0:
| Changed:
| ============================================================
| --- NEWS 4347ab770910e128dd3255cb40025b82faa95040
| +++ NEWS 3fc14e6e9d6ac3edbb36b97dfc19b2b8cbb86f18
| @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
| --=[ Gaim ]=- The Pimpin' Penguin IM Client That's Good For The Soul!
| +Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul
|
| 2.0.0beta6 (1/17/2006):
| Sean: Barring any seriously major new issues, we expect this to be
| ============================================================
| --- PLUGIN_HOWTO 775a12e04637fd821a4cc61d227296b533ea5ceb
| +++ PLUGIN_HOWTO 3edd148e712e9aba0e776c1984c04d9e32fb40c4
| @@ -1,20 +1,7 @@
| -For information on writing a plugin for Gaim, go
| -http://gaim.sourceforge.net/api/ and see the HOWTOs in the
| -"Related Pages" section.
| +For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
| +http://pidgin.im/api/ and 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 Gaim
| +doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
| source tree. The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.
| -
| -This next paragraph is old and possibly out of date:
| -Compilation of the plugins is fairly straight-forward; there is a
| -Makefile in this directory that has a rule for making the .so file
| -from a .c file. No modification of the Makefile should be necessary,
| -unless if you simply want to type 'make' to have it made; otherwise,
| -'make filename.so' will take filename.c and make the .so plugin from
| -it. If you need to link in with extra libraries, you can set the
| -environment variable PLUGIN_LIBS to be the libraries you want to link
| -with.
| -
| -It should be possible to compile plugins outside of the Gaim source
| -tree, which is a much cleaner solution.
| ============================================================
| --- README ee1a1b03fdf222fdbdc2903c16bb01e22d872bce
| +++ README 17b1249504375ffaed8eecfe371b1799fd8b31a5
| @@ -1,28 +1,33 @@
| -gaim
| +Purple, Pidgin and Finch
| ========================
| -Rob Flynn <gaim at robflynn.com> IM: RobFlynn (current maintainer)
| -Syd Logan - Super Hacker and Resident Designated Driver
| -Jim Duchek <jimduchek at ou.edu> IM: Zilding (former maintainer)
| -Eric Warmenhoven <eric at warmenhoven.org> (retired)
| -Mark Spencer <markster at marko.net>
| +See AUTHORS and COPYRIGHT for the list of contributors.
|
| -Gaim is an IM client that supports many protocols, including AIM, ICQ,
| -MSN, IRC, and Jabber. Gaim is NOT endorsed by, nor affiliated with,
| -AOL nor any other company in ANY way.
| +libpurple is a library intended to be used by programmers seeking
| +to write an IM client that connects to many IM networks. It supports
| +AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN and Yahoo!, among others.
|
| +Pidgin is an graphical IM client written in C which uses the GTK+
| +toolkit.
|
| +Finish is a text-based IM client written in C which uses the ncurses
| +toolkit.
| +
| +These programs are not endorsed by, nor affiliated with, AOL nor any
| +other company in any way.
| +
| BUILD
| =====
|
| Read the 'INSTALL' file for more detailed directions.
|
| -Gaim uses the standard ./configure ; make. You need to use gmake, BSD
| -make probably won't work. Remember, run ./configure --help to see what
| -build options are available.
| +These programs use the standard ./configure ; make. You need to use
| +gmake, BSD make probably won't work. Remember, run ./configure --help
| +to see what build options are available.
|
| -In order to compile Gaim, you need to have GTK+ 2.0 installed (as
| +In order to compile Pidgin you need to have GTK+ 2.0 installed (as
| well as the development files!). The configure script will fail if you
| -don't. You can get it from http://www.gtk.org/.
| +don't. If you don't have GTK+ 2.0 installed, you shoudl install it
| +using your distributions package management tools.
|
| For sound support, you also need gstreamer 0.10 or higher. For
| spellchecking support, you need libgtkspell (http://gtkspell.sf.net/).
| @@ -34,9 +39,9 @@
|
| You should run 'make install' as root to make sure plugins and other files
| get installed into locations they want to be in. Once you've done that,
| -you only need to run 'gaim'.
| +you only need to run 'pidgin' or 'finch'.
|
| -Protocol plugins (prpls) are now automatically loaded. Simply go to the
| +Protocol plugins (PRPLs) are now automatically loaded. Simply go to the
| account editor, add a new account, and all supported protocols will be
| there. Be sure to use OSCAR (AIM/ICQ) and not the old TOC or ICQ plugins.
|
| @@ -46,12 +51,12 @@
| PLUGINS
| =======
|
| -If you do not wish to enable the plugin support within Gaim, run the
| +If you do not wish to enable the plugin support within Purple, run the
| ./configure script with the --disable-plugins option and recompile your
| source code. This will prevent the ability to load plugins.
|
| -'make install' puts the plugins in $PREFIX/lib/gaim (PREFIX being what
| -you specified when you ./configure'd - it defaults to /usr/local). Gaim
| +'make install' puts the plugins in $PREFIX/lib/purple (PREFIX being what
| +you specified when you ./configure'd - it defaults to /usr/local). Purple
| looks for the plugins in that directory by default, but they do not have
| to be there to use them. Also, plugins have a .so extension by default,
| though they do not have to.
| @@ -69,13 +74,9 @@
| make sure to put double-quotes around the "%s", otherwise bad things may
| happen.
|
| -If you come across a bug, please report it to http://gaim.sf.net/bug.php.
| +If you come across a bug, please report it to http://pidgin.im/.
|
| -See README.SVN for information on the bleeding edge SVN version of Gaim.
| -You probably shouldn't use it, as it may eat your children, as well as
| -your settings.
|
| -
| PROTOCOL INFORMATION
| ====================
|
| @@ -101,11 +102,11 @@
|
| Oscar is the default protocol. It is recommended that you use Oscar for
| both AIM and ICQ, as TOC isn't very featureful and the old ICQ protocol no
| -longer works.
| +longer works.
|
| For AIM, Oscar can get people's away messages. It can request and accept
| -Direct Connections, and has limited support for file transfer. IM Image
| -does not currently work. It can send and receive buddy icons if you have
| +Direct Connections, and has limited support for file transfer. IM Image
| +does not currently work. It can send and receive buddy icons if you have
| GdkPixbuf.
|
| For ICQ, it supports nearly everything that the old ICQ plugin supported,
| @@ -120,7 +121,7 @@
| Yahoo is currently using the new YMSG protocol that newer official Yahoo
| clients are using. This protocol is much better than the old one, and
| tends to be somewhat more reliable. However, the Yahoo service is still
| -flaky at best.
| +flaky at best.
|
|
| IRC (Ethan)
| @@ -134,27 +135,18 @@
| IRC, /help will give you a list of them.
|
|
| -MSN (Christian)
| +MSN
| ===
|
| With MSN you can join a conversation with several people, but you can't
| invite people from the IM window yet.
|
|
| -ICQ (Mark)
| -===
| -
| -The ICQ plugin is deprecated and will probably be removed soon. The
| -protocol only marginally works. You should use Oscar for ICQ. You'll
| -need a different client to register an ICQ account if you don't have
| -one yet.
| -
| -
| Jabber (Nathan)
| ======
|
| Transports aren't currently supported at all, though if you have a
| -transport already subscribed Gaim will use it (you can't add or remove
| +transport already subscribed Purple will use it (you can't add or remove
| transports though). In order to use a server other than jabber.org, set
| your username to include the server, e.g. warmenhoven at mycompany.com. This
| is the actual format of the Jabber ID anyway; Jabber is email with online
| @@ -162,23 +154,13 @@
| appropriate box in the account editor for your Jabber account.
|
|
| -Napster (Mark)
| -=======
| -
| -Heh. Ok, so I (Rob) am on crack! Gaim can sign on/off of Napster,
| -add/remove people to your hotlist (buddylist) as well as chat privately
| -and in chat rooms. You can search for files and browse a list of other
| -user's files. You can currently download files as long as the person
| -you're retrieving files from is not firewalled.
| -
| -
| Zephyr (Sean)
| ======
|
| Let me start off by saying how much I really despise Zephyr. They do a
| lot of things that make me realize why this never caught on. For those
| of you who are unfortunate enough to feel compelling need to use this,
| -gaim now has a Zephyr plugin. It can currently sign on/off, handles
| +Purple now has a Zephyr plugin. It can currently sign on/off, handles
| presence/buddy lists (it even imports your .anyone file!), and can
| send/receive personal messages. A lot of stuff is missing, this is just
| a real rough first stab at it.
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