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.
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-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...
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-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.
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+- To build and install :
You can compile the plugin using
$ make
and install it with
$ 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".
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+Installing from packages:
+ - ArchLinux: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37942