Merge with a fair number of conflicts. Nothing too crazy.
I didn't merge a lot of changes from 07e827917960
libpurple/protocols/gg/gg.c I think maybe that code has either been
removed or changed significantly in main.
ItispossibletogetGtk2-Perltoworkwithlibpurple's Perl API, however you must not load the module with @c use, but rather with @c require. Keep this in mind if you would like to use other perl modules that are dynamically loaded. You can avoid the problem by always using @c require instead of @c use.
Inordertousethissimpleplugin,savethescripttextinafilewitha@c.plextensioninyour~/.purple/pluginsdirectory.AfterrestartingPidgin,youshouldseetheplugin("Perl Test Plugin")listedinthepluginlistunder"Tools -> Plugins".Toviewthedebugoutput,makesureyourunPidginfromtheconsolewiththe'-d'flagoropentheDebugWindowwhichisavailableinthe"Help"menu.Whenyoucheckthecheckboxnexttheplugin,youshouldseeamessageappearintheDebugWindow(orconsole);similarly,whenyouuncheckthecheckboxyoushouldseeanothermessageappear.Youhavenowcreatedaframeworkthatwillallowyoutocreatealmostanykindoflibpurplepluginyoucanimagine.