Unfornatly, as far as I've ever been able to determine, gaim's perl support never did anything I really wanted it to do. In purticular, I would have loved, at various points, to be able to make GAIM protocols in perl. (Think of the CB in GAIM). Most other things that I've thought of doing with Gaim have big downpoints. (TTS with gaim: sounds bad, and can easily become very annoying.)
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