[Pidgin] #2012: I am sorry, but your Website sucks.

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#2012: I am sorry, but your Website sucks.
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  Reporter:  blubb0r  |       Owner:                      
      Type:  defect   |      Status:  new                 
  Priority:  minor    |   Milestone:                      
 Component:  webpage  |     Version:  2.0.2               
Resolution:           |    Keywords:  Pidgin website sucks
   Pending:  0        |  
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Comment (by deryni):

 That's not quite what you wrote in your summary line, but that's ok. The
 best 'HOWTO' for writing a plugin is the set of existing plugins, namely
 all of the ones that come with pidgin, the set in the pidgin plugin pack
 (hosted by the guifications people) and the API documentation which is
 linked from developer.pidgin.im.

 I don't know what HOWTO you ended up finding but it is likely out-of-date,
 single file plugins can be built by either adding them to the appropriate
 Makefile.am and regenerating the Makefile (which I don't recommend) they
 can also simply be dropped into the appropriate libpurple/plugins or
 pidgin/plugins directory and compiled with 'make pluginfile.so', more
 complicated plugins are going to need to provide their own Makefile or
 autotool build setup.

 pidgin.im itself is largely broken at the moment, which you may have
 noticed had you tried to go the News page (for example).
 developer.pidgin.im is a wiki, it is exactly as friendly as people make
 it, if you want links to things in places they aren't add them.

 We don't host third-party plugins (at least not yet) but you can find some
 on the pidgin sourceforge project page, the same thing holds for smiley
 themes.

 No, there is no manual for pidgin, there have been attempts in the past
 but pidgin moves too fast much of the time for a meaningful manual to be
 written. Feel free to work on one in the wiki if you would like, though as
 I have said in the past I have no real idea what a manual for pidgin would
 look like, and I firmly believe that if pidgin needs a manual we have made
 it too complicated.

 And yes, using Google is exactly the right answer for most of these
 things, mostly the plugins and smiley themes.

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