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Galchin, Vasili kirjoitti:

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Hello,

I am using Ubuntu Linux and I want to get the Haskell IRC feed. What IRC client can I use and how to configure?

Thanks, Vasili

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Pidgin uses IRC-protocol, but Xchat can be found in Synaptic which is more popular client.

In start-up screen of Xchat you have a list of servers where you search Freenode or add new server (closest freenode-server for you), then join new channel (F3 if I recall, or ctrl + j, or "/j #haskell" in commandline of the client).

As with all good things, preferred clients are documented on the wiki, http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/IRC_channel Cheers, Don

Does anyone have an IRC client hiding somewhere that is console friendly (I IRC from a screen session) which is also extensible in Haskell?

http://www.haskell.org/hircules/ Last update was over 5 years ago - you could try to still build it. But it uses gtk2hs, not ncurses. Personally, I've thought about this as a project *several* times in the past, and somewhere around here, I might have a few bits of code thrown together laying around. The -main- reasons I haven't worked on it any more than I have already is because: A) I was under the impression I was still the only one looking for something like this - or maybe lots of people want an 'xmonad equivilant' of their IRC Client? :) B) My uni. blocks 6667 for some reason, so in order to connect with a terminal IRC client outside of here, I need to use SSL. And there are *no* good SSL wrappers out there at all for Haskell as it stands - this alone is a major inhibitor of usage; I know I always want my clients with SSL support. C) I've been busy. That said, if you would like to really get something started and perhaps hack on some stuff, that would be terrifically fun and interesting. Does anybody have name candidates? Perhaps we should go with the yi scheme from confucianism - the zhi (knowledge) IRC client? ;)

Thanks, Jason

Austin