annotate PROGRAMMING_NOTES @ 9740:2bb5e2cd64bd

[gaim-migrate @ 10605] " A few days back, someone on #gaim was wondering how to block IM's from IRC, which isn't supported by gaim, as this isn't supported at a protocol level. I decided to implement gaim's privacy options (permit lists, deny lists, block all users, and permit people on buddy list) at a local level for IRC and Zephyr. Jabber, SILC, and Trepia don't seem to support deny or permit lists in Gaim, but I don't use the latter two protocols and wasn't sure about how to implemnt in in Jabber. When implementing it, I noticed that changes in privacy settings didn't automatically cause blist.xml to get scheduled for writing (even on exit). To fix this, I needed to make schedule_blist_save in blist.c non-static and call it from serv_set_permit_deny() in server.c, and gaim_privacy_{permit,deny}_{add,remove} in privacy.c ." --Arun A Tharuvai committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

Notes on keeping GAIM OS independant
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General
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- Use G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S and G_DIR_SEPARATOR for paths

- Use g_getenv, g_snprintf, g_vsnprintf

- Use gaim_home_dir instead of g_get_home_dir or g_getenv("HOME")

- Make sure when including win32dep.h that it is the last header to
  be included.

- Open binary files when reading or writing with 'b' mode.

  e.g: fopen("somefile", "wb");

  Not doing so will open files in windows using defaut translation mode. 
  i.e. newline -> <CR><LF>

Paths
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- DATADIR, LOCALEDIR & LIBDIR are defined in wingaim as functions.
  Doing the following will therefore break the windows build:

  printf("File in DATADIR is: %s\n", DATADIR G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S "pic.png");

  it should be:

  printf("File in DATADIR is: %s%s%s\n", DATADIR, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S, "pic.png");

PLUGINS & PROTOS
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- G_MODULE_EXPORT all functions which are to be accessed from outside the
  scope of its "dll" or "so". (E.G. gaim_plugin_init)

- G_MODULE_IMPORT all global variables which are located outside your
  dynamic library. (E.G. connections)

  (Not doing this will cause "Memory Access Violations" in Win32)