[JDEV] IRC?

Thomas Charron tcharron at ductape.net
Tue Dec 21 09:08:03 CST 1999


Quoting "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian at lesser-magoo.lcs.mit.edu>:
> > cananian at lesser-magoo.lcs.mit.edu wrote:
> > > Is there any particular reason why an 'IRC-transport' agent isn't being
> > >  considered, to make the group-chat features more useful?
> > It is, in fact, being considered.  I just spoke to Thomas Charron a few
> > days ago on #jabber about this very thing.
> Cool.  I was really wondering more along technical lines --- I don't know
> the details of the IRC protocol myself, so I was wondering if there was
> some fundamental paradigm incompatibility or something.  Glad to hear
> there's (apparently) not.

  Nope..  The primary problem was that we really didn't have any libraries that 
supported the IRC protocol.  The wonders of open source, now everyone can have 
access to 'libirc'..  ;-P

--- 
Thomas Charron
<< Wanted: One decent sig >>
<< Preferably litle used  >>
<< and stored in garage.  ?>>




More information about the JDev mailing list