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-ZyklonB
-=======
+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.
-`ZyklonB' is an experimental IRC bot, building 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.
+All of them have these potentially interesting properties:
+ - full IPv6 support
+ - SSL/TLS support, including client certificates
+ - minimal dependencies
+ - very compact and easy to hack on
-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.
+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.
+
+It's the youngest and largest of them all and currently under heavy development.
kike
----
-Also included is a simple IRC daemon that mostly follows the RFC's but is
-limited to single-server networks, due to the protocol being incredibly ugly and
-tricky to implement correctly (the poor quality of the RFC's doesn't help). It
-is designed for use as a regular user application rather than a system daemon.
+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 there are still some things that need to
be resolved before I can consider it stable.
-Some interesting features:
- - SSL/TLS autodetection
+Notable features:
+ - SSL/TLS autodetection (why doesn't everyone have this?)
- IRCop authentication through SSL/TLS client certificates
- - epoll support on Linux
- - superfast build time, small memory footprint
+ - epoll support on Linux; it should be able to handle quite a number of users
-degesch
+ZyklonB
-------
-To complete it all, I've also started working on an IRC client. I thought it
-would be interesting to build an IRC client on top of libreadline. Also way
-simpler than doing it in ncurses.
+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.
+
+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)
-Runtime dependencies: openssl, ncursesw (degesch), readline (degesch)
+Runtime dependencies: openssl, curses (degesch), readline (degesch)
- $ git clone https://github.com/pjanouch/ZyklonB.git
+ $ git clone https://github.com/pjanouch/uirc3.git
$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update
$ mkdir build
@@ -50,7 +65,7 @@ To install the application, you can do either the usual:
Or you can try telling CMake to make a package for you. For Debian it is:
$ cpack -G DEB
- # dpkg -i ZyklonB-*.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.
@@ -83,7 +98,7 @@ And no, I'm not going to change the names.
License
-------
-`ZyklonB' is written by Přemysl Janouch <p.janouch@gmail.com>.
+`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
is included within the package, or, at your option, you may relicense the work