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authorPřemysl Janouch <p.janouch@gmail.com>2015-09-27 00:38:20 +0200
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@@ -1,17 +1,18 @@
-uirc3
-=====
+= uirc3
+
The unethical IRC trinity. This project consists of an experimental IRC client,
daemon, and bot. It's all you're ever going to need for chatting.
All of them have these potentially interesting properties:
+
- full IPv6 support
- TLS support, including client certificates
- minimal dependencies
- very compact and easy to hack on
- permissive license
-degesch
--------
+== degesch
+
The IRC client. It is largely defined by being built on top of GNU Readline.
Its interface should however feel familiar for weechat or irssi users.
@@ -21,26 +22,28 @@ servers, powerful configuration system, integrated help, mIRC text formatting,
CTCP queries, automatic splitting of overlong messages, autocomplete, logging
to file, and command aliases.
-kike
-----
+== kike
+
The IRC daemon. It is designed to be used as a regular user application rather
than a system-wide daemon. If all you want is a decent, minimal IRCd for
a small network of respectful users (or bots), or testing, this one will do it.
Notable features:
+
- TLS autodetection (why doesn't everyone have this?)
- IRCop authentication through TLS client certificates
- epoll/kqueue support; it should be able to handle quite a number of users
- partial IRCv3 support
Not supported:
+
- server linking (which also means no services); I consider existing protocols
for this purpose ugly and tricky to implement correctly
- online changes to configuration; the config system from degesch could be used
- - limits of almost any kind, just connections and mode +l
+ - limits of almost any kind, just connections and mode `+l`
+
+== ZyklonB
-ZyklonB
--------
The IRC bot. It builds upon the concept of my other VitaminA IRC bot. The main
characteristic of these two bots is that they run plugins as coprocesses, which
allows for enhanced reliability and programming language freedom.
@@ -51,12 +54,13 @@ where I added everything that seemed nice, and it eventually got me into writing
the rest of this package.
Notable features:
+
- resilient against crashes, server disconnects and timeouts
- SOCKS support (even though socksify can add that easily to any program)
-Building
---------
-Build dependencies: CMake, pkg-config, help2man, awk, sh, liberty (included)
+== Building
+
+Build dependencies: CMake, pkg-config, help2man, awk, sh, liberty (included) +
Runtime dependencies: openssl, curses (degesch),
readline or libedit >= 2013-07-12 (degesch)
@@ -68,54 +72,59 @@ Runtime dependencies: openssl, curses (degesch),
$ make
To install the application, you can do either the usual:
+
# make install
Or you can try telling CMake to make a package for you. For Debian it is:
+
$ cpack -G DEB
# dpkg -i uirc3-*.deb
-Note that for versions of CMake before 2.8.9, you need to prefix cpack with
-`fakeroot' or file ownership will end up wrong.
+Note that for versions of CMake before 2.8.9, you need to prefix `cpack` with
+`fakeroot` or file ownership will end up wrong.
+
+== Running
-Running
--------
-`degesch' has in-program configuration. Just run it and read the instructions.
+_degesch_ has in-program configuration. Just run it and read the instructions.
For the rest you might want to generate a configuration file:
+
$ zyklonb --write-default-config
$ kike --write-default-config
After making any necessary edits to the file (there are comments to aid you in
doing that), simply run the appropriate program with no arguments:
+
$ zyklonb
$ kike
-`ZyklonB' stays running in the foreground, therefore I recommend launching it
+_ZyklonB_ stays running in the foreground, therefore I recommend launching it
inside a Screen or tmux session.
-`kike', on the other hand, immediately forks into the background. Use the PID
-file or something like `killall' if you want to terminate it. You can run it
-as a `forking' type systemd user service.
+_kike_, on the other hand, immediately forks into the background. Use the PID
+file or something like `killall` if you want to terminate it. You can run it
+as a `forking` type systemd user service.
+
+== Client Certificates
-Client Certificates
--------------------
-`kike' uses SHA1 fingerprints of TLS client certificates to authenticate users.
+_kike_ uses SHA1 fingerprints of TLS client certificates to authenticate users.
To get the fingerprint from a certificate file in the required form, use:
+
$ openssl x509 -in public.pem -outform DER | sha1sum
-Contributing and Support
-------------------------
+== Contributing and Support
+
Use this project's GitHub to report any bugs, request features, or submit pull
requests. If you want to discuss this project, or maybe just hang out with
the developer, feel free to join me at irc://anathema.irc.so, channel #anathema.
-Disclaimer
-----------
+== Disclaimer
+
I am not an antisemitist, I'm just being an offensive asshole with the naming.
And no, I'm not going to change the names.
-License
--------
+== License
+
`uirc3' is written by Přemysl Janouch <p.janouch@gmail.com>.
You may use the software under the terms of the ISC license, the text of which