Revision 9e66044c11c061556ebea3a9979b60e452a1b015

[Luke Schierer]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 12:24:55AM -0400, Nathan Walp wrote:
> rlaager at pidgin.im wrote:
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> 
> This was the commit to use .gaim if it exists, else .purple.  I think 
> this is a mistake.
> 
> I think the correct behavior should be to use .purple if it exists, else 
> if .gaim exists, import the prefs, accounts, statuses, etc (everything 
> but the logs), and teach the logger to look in both .gaim and .purple 
> for logs to read.  Otherwise we can easily screw up the .gaim/*.xml 
> files, and prevent older versions from working, which we've been 
> reasonably good about not doing up until this point.

I agree.

> 
> On a somewhat-related note, do we need to be concerned now about 
> concurrent access to stuff in .purple, since it's more likely someone 
> might be running finch and pidgin or finch and adium, rather than 2 
> copies of gaim?

yes.