Bad News from http://gaim.sourceforge.net/:
Gaim's support for perl scripts is degrading rapidly. Parts of it work; parts of it don't work. There has been talk of removing support for perl scripts altogether in CVS HEAD. If you have the know-how to work with C/perl integration, the desire to contribute to an outstandingly sweet open source program, and the time to debug, fix and extend a perl plugin loader, we urge you to swing into action and help us out. I'd personally love to see a perl plugin that tests the full range of our perl scripting. Patches are always welcome (the smaller the better!)
Someone posted this bad news to a member of the german perl-community. I think it is important enough to repost it here.