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diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc index 085efe9..03f72c1 100644 --- a/README.adoc +++ b/README.adoc @@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ uirc3 :compact-option: 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. +daemon, and bot. It's all you're ever going to need for chatting, as long as +you can make do with minimalist software. All of them have these potentially interesting properties: @@ -15,33 +16,38 @@ All of them have these potentially interesting properties: 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. +The IRC client. It is largely defined by being built on top of GNU Readline +that has been hacked to death. Its interface should feel somewhat familiar for +weechat or irssi users. -This is the youngest and largest application within the project. It has most of -the stuff you'd expect of an IRC client, such as being able to set up multiple -servers, powerful configuration system, integrated help, mIRC text formatting, -CTCP queries, automatic splitting of overlong messages, autocomplete, logging -to file, command aliases and rudimentary support for Lua scripting. +This is the largest application within the project. It has most of the stuff +you'd expect of an IRC client, such as being able to set up multiple servers, +a powerful configuration system, integrated help, text formatting, CTCP queries, +automatic splitting of overlong messages, autocomplete, logging to file, +command aliases and rudimentary support for Lua scripting. 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. +testing purposes or a small network of respectful users (or bots), this one will +do it just fine. 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 + - TLS autodetection (why doesn't everyone have this?), using secure defaults + - IRCop authentication via TLS client certificates + - epoll/kqueue support; this means that it should be able to handle quite + a number of user connections - 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 + for this purpose ugly and tricky to implement correctly; I've also found no + use for this feature yet + - online changes to configuration; the configuration system from degesch could + be used to implement this feature if needed - limits of almost any kind, just connections and mode `+l` ZyklonB @@ -50,21 +56,19 @@ 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. -While originally intended to be a simple C99 rewrite of the original bot, which -was written in the GNU dialect of AWK, it fairly quickly became a playground -where I added everything that seemed nice, and it eventually got me into writing -the rest of this package. +While originally intended to be a simple rewrite of the original AWK bot in C, +it fairly quickly became a playground, and it eventually got me into writing +the rest of the package. -Notable features: - - - resilient against crashes, server disconnects and timeouts - - SOCKS support (even though socksify can add that easily to any program) +It survives crashes, server disconnects and timeouts, and also has native SOCKS +support (even though socksify can add that easily to any program). Building -------- Build dependencies: CMake, pkg-config, help2man, awk, sh, liberty (included) + -Runtime dependencies: openssl, curses (degesch), lua >= 5.3 (degesch, optional) - readline or libedit >= 2013-07-12 (degesch) +Runtime dependencies: openssl, curses (degesch), + readline >= 6.0 or libedit >= 2013-07-12 (degesch), + lua >= 5.3 (degesch, optional) $ git clone --recursive https://github.com/pjanouch/uirc3.git $ mkdir uirc3/build |