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authorPřemysl Eric Janouch <p@janouch.name>2023-08-30 00:35:34 +0200
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Add a Cocoa frontend for xC
Some work remains to be done to get it to be even as good as the Win32 frontend, but it's generally usable.
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==
'xK' (chat kit) is an IRC software suite consisting of a daemon, bot, terminal
-client, and web + Win32 frontends for the client. It's all you're ever going to
-need for chatting, so long as you can make do with slightly minimalist software.
+client, and web/Windows/macOS frontends for the client. It's all you're ever
+going to need for chatting, so long as you can make do with slightly minimalist
+software.
They're all lean on dependencies, and offer a maximally permissive licence.
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xW
~~
The Win32 frontend is a separate CMake subproject that should be compiled
-using MinGW-w64. In order to run it, make a shortcut for the executable and
-include the relay address in its _Target_ field:
+using MinGW-w64. To avoid having to specify the relay address each time you
+run it, create a shortcut for the executable and include the address in its
+_Target_ field:
C:\...\xW.exe 127.0.0.1 9000
It works reasonably well starting with Windows 7.
+xM
+~~
+The Cocoa frontend is a separate CMake subproject that requires Xcode to build.
+It is currently not that usable. The relay address can either be passed on
+the command line, or preset in the _defaults_ database:
+
+ $ defaults write name.janouch.xM relayHost 127.0.0.1
+ $ defaults write name.janouch.xM relayPort 9000
+
Client Certificates
-------------------
'xC' will use the SASL EXTERNAL method to authenticate using the TLS client