[SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by George Sherwood (00208e88115a68e7631a1c8e2f24ddd07594b798)

Arwed von Merkatz v.merkatz at gmx.net
Wed Nov 15 15:15:42 EST 2006


On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 08:57:18AM -0800, Eric Sandall wrote:
> George Sherwood wrote:
> > GIT changes to master grimoire by George Sherwood <chat at sourcemage.org>:
> > 
> >  chat-irc/xchat/HISTORY                     |    4 +
> >  chat-irc/xchat/PRE_BUILD                   |    3 +
> >  chat-irc/xchat/text-fe.patch               |   64 -----------------------------
> >  chat-irc/xchat/xchat-2.6.8-fix_proto.patch |   34 +++++++++++++++
> >  4 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)
> > 
> > New commits:
> > commit 00208e88115a68e7631a1c8e2f24ddd07594b798
> > Author: George Sherwood <chat at sourcemage.org>
> > Commit: George Sherwood <chat at sourcemage.org>
> > 
> >     xchat: Added fix to build text front end. Bug #13245.  Not sure how much
> >     longer it will be possible.  text front end is not developed any more.
> <snip>
> 
> If it's not maintained anymore, should we just drop support for it and
> have people use bitchx/irssi/etc. for a text IRC client?

I would say yes. The text frontend of xchat is one of the worst irc
clients I ever used, a good telnet client is more useful ;)
There are lots of textmode irc clients as alternatives.

-- 
Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
                                                    http://www.sourcemage.org



More information about the SM-Commit mailing list