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QPurple

A Qt interface to libpurple

0. LICENSING

This software is provided as-is, with no warranty express or implied, under the

terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2. You may obtain the text of

this license at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt.

1. PURPOSE

Qt is a very nice C++ library which is all but necessary to make the language

bearable (in the eyes of the author); libpurple is the pre-eminent multi-

protocol communications library, which is useful in a number of cross-platform

applications.

QPurple attempts to provide a Qt interface to libpurple. This is to be

accomplished by integrating libpurple with the Qt event loop, and providing

high-level wrapper classes which expose the libpurple core through signals and

slots. In this way, a developer can start using libpurple in a Qt program,

making use of constructs familiar to anyone who has used Qt.

2. INSTALLATION

This library requires qmake to build. The specifics depend on your platform;

for more information read up on qmake. The result is a shared object which you

may put wherever the hell you want.

Note that building the libqpurple library does not automatically build the test

project; that is done separately in the test directory itself.

3. ROADMAP

Roadmap for upcoming releases:

* exposing the UI ops, etc as slots for other classes to fill in. You know, so

a program could use libpurple

* exposing accounts, buddy lists, and other integral objects as classes >_>

* updating the project file to link with libpurple on platforms other than unix

* coming up with more bullets

4. STATUS / NEWS

27 July 2010

What the hell was I thinking, this is completely untestend (and apparently

buggy) code. Also, version numbers are pretty stupid too.

I need to not do these things at 3am.

27 July 2010, Addendum

I have created a test sub-project called "test" which will showcase what is

possible with qpurple.

0.1.0, 26 July 2010

This is the inaugural version. Event loop integration works, and a very stupid

and useless but nonetheless working program could link with this library and

initialize the libpurple core, though nothing would be gained by it.