README.SVN

Mon, 01 May 2006 20:37:37 +0000

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Richard Laager <rlaager@pidgin.im>
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Mon, 01 May 2006 20:37:37 +0000
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Resolve some unused value CIDs. This changeset just removes dead code.

jabber
chat.c
CID 180
CID 181
msn
httpconn.c
CID 179
msn.c
CID 185
CID 186
notification.c
CID 189
slp.c
CID 183
CID 184
switchboard.c
CID 178
sync.c
CID 187
CID 188
user.c
CID 182
novell
novell.c
CID 190
sametime
sametime.c
CID 214
CID 215
yahoo
yahoo.c
CID 200
CID 201
CID 202
yahoo_doodle.c
CID 168
CID 169
yahoo_filexfer.c
CID 170
CID 171
CID 172

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1 If you plan to use gaim SVN, PLEASE read this message in its entirety!
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3 Gaim is a fast-moving project with a somewhat regular release schedule.
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4 Due to the rate of gaim development, SVN undergoes frequent bursts of
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5 massive changes, often leaving behind brokenness and partial
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6 functionality while the responsible developers rewrite some portion of
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7 code or seek to add new features.
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9 What this all boils down to is that SVN _WILL_ sometimes be broken.
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10 Because of this, we ask that users who are not interested in
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11 personally tracking down bugs and fixing them (without a lot of
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12 assistance from the developers!) avoid SVN and use releases. Since
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13 releases will be made often, this should not prevent anyone from using
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14 the newest, shiniest features -- but it will prevent users from having
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15 to deal with ugly development bugs that we already know about but
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16 haven't gotten around to fixing.
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18 If you are interested in hacking on gaim, please read README and
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19 HACKING, and take note of the issues in PROGRAMMING_NOTES. (Note that
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20 they may be somewhat out of date at times.) Win32 developers, please
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21 read README.mingw.
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23 By far the best documentation, however, is the documented code. Not
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24 all parts of gaim have yet been documented, but the major subsystems
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25 are falling fast. If you have doxygen, you can use the Doxyfile in
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26 the toplevel directory to generate pretty documentation. Otherwise
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27 (or even if you do!), the header files for each subsystem contain
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28 documentation for the functions they contain. For instance,
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29 conversation.h contains documentation for the entire
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30 gaim_conversation_* API, and account.h contains documentation for the
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31 gaim_account_* API.
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33 If you have questions, please feel free to contact the gaim developers
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34 by email at gaim-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, on IRC at
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35 irc.freenode.net in #gaim, or via the sourceforge forums at
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36 http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim. Please do as much homework
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37 as you can before contacting us; the more you know about your
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38 question, the faster and more effectively we can help you!
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40 Send patches to gaim-devel@lists.sourceforge.net or post them in the
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41 Sourceforge forums at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim.

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