Re: [Gaim-devel] Re: Help on perl scripting support (windows )

[Luke S. <lsc...@us...>]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 08:27:44PM +0200, Jan Hudec wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 22:23:42 -0500, Mark Doliner wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 04:07:07 +0100 (BST), ArunK Mishra wrote
> > > Do you know how perl scripting works with yahoo ?
> > > Can input received be captured and a message can be
> > > sent through script ?
> > Yes.  See http://gaim.sourceforge.net/api/perl-howto.html for an example perl
> > script.  You can probably find some other examples in the Gaim source and the
> > plugin tracker.  I don't have time to help you personally, but you might have
> > some luck on the gaim-devel mailing list.
> 
> Unfortunately I've heared that perl scripting is badly broken. Noone
> seems to care enough to maintain it, so it slowly bitrots. Last time
> I tried to use it it seemed to work, but spat quite lot of 'Attempt to
> free unreferenced scalar' errors, so it might silently do nonsense.
> 
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> 						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bu...@uc...>

Right. that is how things currently stand.  I think Mark looked at it
*briefly* this weekend (based on the commit emails) and I believe that
one person has said that he would be providing patches to update it,
one of which is assigned to Etan currently.

luke