X-Git-Url: http://git.harvie.cz/?p=mirrors%2Flibpurple-core-answerscripts.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=379526cf8e4d7f30f99ccb66fdc5c551e006ae4a;hp=60ef349af3b82f395e8ad6925b40b1a3c6dd69a0;hb=3971900dcde58c50b85eabf0d4bcf5f20ba1114a;hpb=30e27dcddb95e6147ea4e24080f38ea2f05988a1 diff --git a/README b/README index 60ef349..379526c 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,16 +1,14 @@ libPurple core-answerscripts plugin - Framework for hooking scripts to received messages for various libpurple clients + - Framework for hooking scripts to respond received messages for various libpurple clients such as pidgin or finch + - This simple plugin just passes every single message received by any libPurple-based client (pidgin,finch) to sript(s) in user's home directory... So you can add various hooks to your pidgin or finch without need of writing and compiling own C plugin or messing with buggy perl plugin and restarting client after each change in plugin. + - There are already few sample (answer)scripts in purple directory, so you can check how easy it is to write some script for pidgin or finch... -This simple plugin just passes every single message received by any libPurple-based client (pidgin,finch) to sript(s) in user's home directory... So you can add various hooks to your pidgin or finch without need of writing and compiling own C plugin or messing with buggy perl plugin and restarting client after each change in plugin. - -There are already few sample (answer)scripts in purple directory, so you can check how easy it is to write some script for pidgin or finch... - - -The libpurple header files are needed to compile the plugin. Building & installation: -To build and install : +- The libpurple header files are needed to compile the plugin. + +- To build and install : You can compile the plugin using $ make and install it with @@ -19,10 +17,14 @@ To build and install : $ make user Install main script and sample answerscripts to ~/.purple/answerscripts.d/ -To install it for everybody on your computer, +- To install it for everybody on your computer, $ make $ su - # make install PREFIX="/path/to/pidgin" (this command as root user) - generally /path/to/pidgin is /usr or /usr/local. If you don't know the path then you can find out using - $ whereis pidgin - and look for the part before "/lib/pidgin". + # make install PREFIX="/path/to/libpurple" (this command as root user) + generally /path/to/libpurple is /usr or /usr/local. If you don't know the path then you can find out using + $ whereis libpurple + and look for the part before "/lib/libpurple.so". + + +Installing from packages: + - ArchLinux: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37942