On 25 Aug 2010, at 22:59, David Chisnall <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25 Aug 2010, at 21:45, Jan-Paul Bultmann wrote: > >> If étoilé had an SILC client I would use that, but sadly it doesn't^^ > > > It's on the todo list. The SILC toolkit is very easy to use. GhostOfRaskin, > the Étoilé SILC bot uses it and is very simple. Once we have the > communications hub code finished, it will be trivial to add SILC support. > > On the other hand, if we add multi-user conference support to XMPPKit then we > might switch to that instead. > > IRC is a painfully stupid protocol with a great many problems, so I doubt > we'll ever switch to IRC.
Well, I said this over two years ago and since then: - We still don't have an Étoilé SILC client. - We still don't have MUC support in XMPPKit. - Colloquy's SILC support has been broken for two major releases. - No new SILC clients have been released - The SILC server seems to be no longer maintained, and depends on a different version of the toolkit to the client, making it impossible to install both on the same machine So, I suggest that we bite the bullet and switch to IRC. I've had good experiences with efnet for FreeBSD stuff. Would anyone have any objections to making #Etoile on efnet the official channel? They don't support registering a channel or any similar ideas, so whoever stays in there regularly gets ops. Much as I dislike IRC, I'd prefer a crappy protocol with users to a good protocol without. David -- Sent from my Difference Engine _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
