This page discusses ProtocolPluginId.
Using <pluginName>_<ownerIdNum> is a good idea. If this pair is used as section key we don't need to save the protocol for every user in users.conf. My suggestion is the following:
owner.conf ========== [owners] NumOfOwner = 2 Owner1.ID = 123456 Owner1.Protocol = ICQ Owner2.ID = 123@hotmail.com Owner2.Protocol = MSN [ICQ_123456] Password = very_secret Alias = ... ... [MSN_123@hotmail.com] Password = very_secret Alias = ... ... users.conf ========== [ICQ_123456] NumOfUsers = 2 User1 = 654321 User2 = 615243 [MSN_123@hotmail.com] NumOfUsers = 1 User1 = hot@hotmail.com
In that way we only have a problem when a squared bracket is part of the user ID. Maybe we cut or replace this bracket before the entries in the conf files were read or written.
After a short discussion we decided to use XML for the configuration files. As XML Parser in licq the parser expat (http://expat.sourceforge.net/) can be used. It's small and fast.
TODO: If you can make an xml file out of the above config files then do it and post the result here.
