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@@ -8,25 +8,26 @@ All of them have these potentially interesting properties: - SSL/TLS support, including client certificates - minimal dependencies - very compact and easy to hack on + - liberal license degesch ------- -The IRC client. I thought it would be interesting to build an IRC client on -top of libreadline. At least it's way simpler than doing it in ncurses. -The interface should feel familiar for weechat users. +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. -It's the youngest and largest of them all and currently under heavy development. +This is the youngest and largest application within the project and it's +currently under development. + +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, file logging, and command aliases. kike ---- -The IRC daemon. It mostly follows RFCs but it can't form networks consisting -of multiple servers, or use any services packages, such as Atheme. (Mostly due -to the protocol being incredibly ugly and tricky to implement correctly, with -the poor quality of the RFCs not helping much). It is designed to be used as -a regular user application rather than a system daemon. - -It is complete enough to be useful but doesn't support online configuration -changes or limits of almost any kind yet. +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: - SSL/TLS autodetection (why doesn't everyone have this?) @@ -34,6 +35,12 @@ Notable features: - epoll support on Linux; 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 + ZyklonB ------- The IRC bot. It builds upon the concept of my other VitaminA IRC bot. The main @@ -42,7 +49,8 @@ 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. +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 @@ -75,7 +83,7 @@ Note that for versions of CMake before 2.8.9, you need to prefix cpack with Running ------- -`degesch' has in-program configuration. Just run it and type "/help". +`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 @@ -87,8 +95,11 @@ doing that), simply run the appropriate program with no arguments: $ kike `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 something like `killall' if you want to terminate 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. Client Certificates ------------------- |