SavIRC |
savIRC is a relatively new Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client, completely written in Tcl/tk. It runs on both Unix-like and Microsoft Windows systems, and possibly also on Mac OS X, although this is not confirmed. savIRC supports features most IRC clients have, including support for multiple connections and unicode, but unlike most clients, presents this in a very user friendly way. Some say it looks like mIRC, although this is not the aim of the project.
It was started in 2001 by Saverio Castellano. He carried savIRC to the 1.95 release. In 2003, the project was dead in the water. No development was done anymore. Worse yet, the code had forked into a Linux and Microsoft Windows variants. Halfway into 2004, the project was picked up by two other developers (Sander van Grieken & Casey Ackels). They merged the forks together and fixed most apparent bugs.
In early 2005 Sander van Grieken left the project.
The current main developers are Casey Ackels and phobie.
Currently savIRC is very stable but still under further development. New tcl coders are always welcome.
The software is licensed under GNU General Public License
=See also=
*List of IRC clients *Comparison of IRC clients
=External links=
*[http://www.savirc.com savIRC website] *[http://bugs.savirc.com savIRC bugreports] *[http://sourceforge.net/projects/savirc/ savIRC on SourceForge] *[http://developer.berlios.de/projects/savirc/ savIRC on BerliOS] *[http://openusability.org/projects/savirc/ savIRC on OpenUsability] *[http://svn.savirc.com/websvn/listing.phprepname=savirc WebSVN backend to the subversion repository]|
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