[9fans] what are people using for IRC these days

[John Floren]

So, while my IRC bouncer runs on my Plan 9 server, I've been
connecting to it using Linux and Windows clients. Now that I've got my
rpi set up with a nice monitor and everything, I'm looking at IRC on
Plan 9 again.

What clients are people using these days? I remember using something
in Acme that posted a file in /srv, supported multiple channels, etc.,
but also tended to gobble up a lot of cpu time when I'd start a new
instance of the client. Server authentication would be useful for
authenticating to my bouncer too.


john

[Jacob Todd]

I use irc7.

[a...@9srv.net]

It sounds like you're describing irc7. There's also an irc7.2, which
is some cosmetic changes, plus factotum authentication. I usually
use the ircsrv from irc7.2 (which does the factotum bit, talks the
irc protocol, creates a /tmp and /srv file, and sits in the background)
and the irc from irc7 (which handles the UI, and i'm not terribly fond
of the irc7.2 cosmetic changes). Just a few days ago, in response
to someone else asking the same thing, I but my hybrid up at:

/n/sources/contrib/anothy/src/cmd/irc7a

I keep wanting to make more changes (mostly, which side of the
ircsrv/irc split timestamps happen on), but haven't gotten around to
it. If I do, they'll go there.

Anthony