New PurplePrefType: string with hint list

[Mark Doliner]

On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 6:48 AM, Tomasz Wasilczyk
<tomkiewicz.groups at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/8/11 Mark Doliner <mark at kingant.net>:
>> g_list_free_full(), which was added in glib 2.28.  Note that our
>> configure.ac currently allows glib versions as far back as 2.16.0.
>
> Maybe we could introduce compat.c / compat.h files for libpurple,
> where we could implement such handy new functions for old versions of
> glib?

I think that's totally reasonable.  We've done that for gtk widgets in
the past.  "glibcompat.c/.h" might be more descriptive.