[Sugar-devel] IRC activity, version 7

[Simon Schampijer]

On 11/16/2010 10:12 AM, Fran Rogers wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> I'm pleased to announce a new version of the IRC activity. I've been working
> on the activity over the past few weeks as part of the Humanitarian FOSS
> class at RIT; Mel Chua, the current maintainer, was looking for a new
> maintainer and I decided to take up the task.
>
> Version 7 significantly adds Sugar Journal support, allowing your nickname,
> server, channels joined, and channel and query scrollback to persist between
> sessions. Proper CTCP support has also been added, so you'll no longer get a
> gibberish message when Freenode checks your version on login; several other
> cosmetic bugs have been fixed, as well.
>
> The new version should be on ASLO soon (I'm still waiting for upload
> access), but for now you can download it here:
> .xo Bundle: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11458013/IRC/IRC-7.xo
> Source: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11458013/IRC/IRC-7.tar.bz2
>
> Your input is welcome!
>
> -Fran Rogers

Thanks for working on this - it is great!

A request from a few devs hanging out in #sugar was to remove the 
default connect to #sugar, as there are quite a few kids connecting for 
fun and spamming the channel...:)

Regards,
    Simon