Gaim and RSS Stuff

Amid my unemployment, I decided to try to write a Perl plugin for gaim. However, I could not get gaim to display the sample scripts provided. Asking on IRC (#gaim at irc.freenode.net) pointed me to a problem with 0.75. Luckily, a patch was provided. Unluckily, it did not solve my problem.

Since the problem was with 0.75, I decided to try out 0.74, which was not supposed to have that problem. This too did not work, leading me to suspect a problem with OpenBSD’s port of gaim.

I contacted the maintainer of the OpenBSD port, who enlightened me to the fact that Perl plugins were disabled. A quick change in the Makefile enabled the plugin:

Build with Perl support....... : yes

Of course, it did not work.

If this does not get resolved, I may have to write a C plugin, which I do not look forward to doing. On the bright side, I may be able to sharpen my C skills in the process.

Amid this failure, was success—this blog now has an RSS feed.