[GSoC 2012] Planned API changes - RFC

[Ethan Blanton]

Tomasz Wasilczyk spake unto us the following wisdom:
> I have another question, related to #9463. There is a need to add zlib
> to dependencies. There were a discussion, that it shouldn't be a
> problem, because pidgin depends on it per-proxy (some related library
> depends on it). What's the official decision? Can I just add it to
> required dependencies in configure.ac? If not - may it be an optional
> dependency?

I have no problem with simply adding it to configure.ac for 3.x.
Everyone has zlib.

Ethan