Re: [Gaim-devel] The SILC Gaim protocol plugin

[Tim R. <om...@ho...>]

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>Also  for  the record, I understand that you do not use the "FT API" for
>key management, and I am not averse to providing a file selector for the
>use of prpls and other plugins.
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>Ethan
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Letting the Prpl completely handle its own sockets makes sense, but I'm 
not sure what the rational is for letting it handle writing to and/or 
reading from the local file directly. Why does it need it need to do 
that? The API I suggested (but didn't implement) was supposed to allow 
the prpl to handle the socket stuff itself, but make the core handle 
reading to/writing from the local file.

More importantly, is it better API design to let the prpl access the 
local file directly, or to force it to use an abstraction?

--Tim Ringenbach