From: Harvie Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 03:25:47 +0000 (+0200) Subject: first commit X-Git-Url: http://git.harvie.cz/?p=mirrors%2Flibpurple-core-answerscripts.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=30e27dcddb95e6147ea4e24080f38ea2f05988a1 first commit --- 30e27dcddb95e6147ea4e24080f38ea2f05988a1 diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..60ef349 --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +libPurple core-answerscripts plugin + Framework for hooking scripts to received messages for various libpurple clients + +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 : + You can compile the plugin using + $ make + and install it with + $ make install + This will install it in ~/.purple/plugins so that only the user who install it can use it. + $ make user + Install main script and sample answerscripts to ~/.purple/answerscripts.d/ + +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".