Announce: Hircules 0.1 IRC client released

[Graham Klyne]

Interesting.

Is the IRC protocol engine yet reasonably separable?  Several folks in the 
Semantic Web community have been playing with RDF-driven IRC 'bots for 
various purposes.  It might be fun to try bolting the IRC interface to my 
own RDF code-in-development.

#g
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At 19:05 15/05/03 +0900, Jens Petersen wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am pleased to announce the first release of Hircules,
>an IRC client written in Haskell. It uses gtk2hs for the UI.
>The present code evolved from Lambdabot 1.0 by Andrew Bromage et al.
>(I hope it will be possible to factor out a nice IRC library from
>Lambdabot and Hircules, to avoid duplication of code and effort --
>certainly I can see plenty of improvements that could be made in
>the structuring and code of Hircules.)
>
>Hircules is still quite basic in terms of features, and though
>I think it can be used for basic chatting, I would describe it as
>alpha quality software. It supports channel tabs, a raw irc tab
>and an all channel tab. It is also possible to use lambdabot
>extension modules, though by default most of them are disabled
>currently.
>
>The source code and rpms can now be downloaded from:
>
>         http://haskell.org/hircules/
>
>Give it a try if you can!  Comments on the design, bug reports, rfe's,
>contributions, etc are most welcome.  I hope to have a cvs repository
>up soon to make it more accessible.
>
>Cheers, Jens
>
>
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