Bersirc
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| Bersirc | |
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| Latest release | 2.2.14 / August 12, 2005 |
| OS | Windows, Linux, Mac OS X |
| Genre | IRC client |
| License | LGPL |
| Website | http://bersirc.free2code.net |
Bersirc is an open source Internet relay chat client for the Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X operating systems. It uses the Lucid toolkit, which aims to provide an interface to native windowing systems and widgets on all operating systems. Microsoft .NET and Qt toolkit ports are also planned. The current version of Bersirc is 2.2.14.
Bersirc is to eventually include support for mIRC scripts via a plugin. This long-standing rumour among Bersirc fans was confirmed on the project's website. But the implementation will not be completely compatible with mIRC. This appears to be the only internal scripting planned for Bersirc, but the plugin interface will allow third party scripting engines.
Since the latest release this software remains unmaintained and contains dangerous security bugs.
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[edit] License
Bersirc is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License and there are no plans to change this.[1] Bersirc 2.1 was to be released under the Qt Public License, but the Qt toolkit and license were abandoned, most likely due to pressure from Qt's detractors.
[edit] History
Bersirc was originally written in Delphi by Jamie Frater in 1999 as a Windows-only IRC client, comparable to HydraIRC and Klient. But development stagnated due to his growing responsibilities in real life.
On February 10, 2004 Nicholas Copeland bought the source code from Frater and released it as open source. The older Delphi client, Bersirc 1.4, was supposed to be maintained under the name Bersirc 1.5. The original site was also archived by the new owner, including all the old plugins and extensions, but there has been almost no information about the future of the legacy clients since.
Developers stated that development of the 1.4 client stalled because the original source code extensively used proprietary software components. The 1.4 client relies on many parts of old versions of the Raize Components package which are no longer available and newer versions are not compatible.
The primary developer, Theo Julienne, announced plans to develop the 2.1 branch in C++ using the Qt toolkit, but with the release of the 2.2 branch this was changed to C using Claro Graphics.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Bersirc website
- Archived copy of Bersirc 1.4 site
- Official IRC channel
- Mailing list
- Jamie Frater's Official Website
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