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- If you plan to use Pidgin, Finch and libpurple from our Monotone repository,
- PLEASE read this message in its entirety!
-
- Pidgin, Finch, and libpurple are a fast-moving project with a somewhat regular
- release schedule. Due to the rate of development, the code in our Monotone
- repository undergoes frequent bursts of massive changes, often leaving behind
- brokenness and partial functionality while the responsible developers rewrite
- some portion of code or seek to add new features.
-
- What this all boils down to is that the code in our Monotone repository _WILL_
- sometimes be broken. Because of this, we ask that users who are not interested
- in personally tracking down bugs and fixing them (without a lot of
- assistance from the developers!) use only released versions. Since releases
- will be made often, this should not prevent anyone from using the newest,
- shiniest features -- but it will prevent users from having to deal with ugly
- development bugs that we already know about but haven't gotten around to fixing.
-
- If you are interested in hacking on Pidgin, Finch, and/or libpurple, please
- check out the information available at: http://developer.pidgin.im
-
- By far the best documentation, however, is the documented code. If you have
- doxygen, you can run "make docs" in the toplevel directory to generate pretty
- documentation. Otherwise (or even if you do!), the header files for each
- subsystem contain documentation for the functions they contain. For instance,
- conversation.h contains documentation for the entire purple_conversation_*
- API, and account.h contains documentation for the purple_account_* API.
-
- If you have questions, please feel free to contact the Pidgin, Finch, and
- libpurple developers by e-mail at devel@pidgin.im or on IRC at irc.freenode.net
- in #pidgin. Please do as much homework as you can before contacting us; the
- more you know about your question, the faster and more effectively we can help!
-
- Patches should be posted as Trac tickets at: http://developer.pidgin.im
-