annotate PROGRAMMING_NOTES @ 10038:eb8ccdd6f5f2

[gaim-migrate @ 10997] " Fix Philip Mucci's bug (reported to gaim-devel on the 16th), where malformed (visibility) strings, caused users to be unmessageable and hidden, by normalizing them, and using sane defaults. Fixes CraigD's bug IRC reported on IRC (non-kerberized zephyr users always have the realm "local-realm"), by adding a user-specified "Realm" option string. Also added two new preferences (import from .anyone and import from .zephyr.subs) to go with (export to .anyone and "export to .zephyr.subs"). Since one can now use multiple accounts, most people wouldn't want to use the same buddy lists and chat room lists for both accounts. Added a /topic command to make zephyr use the same command name as the other protocols which have topics." --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)