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Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Post by coldpie »

simias wrote: post #25
coldpie wrote: post #12

I'm glad to see another project dropping the meaningless major version number(s). If you don't have a criteria for incrementing the major number, just drop it. This seems to finally be catching on, hopefully we'll see the billion open source projects with meaningless "0." continue to fall off.

The problem is that when you start a new project you definitely don't want to start at 1.0 and give people the impression that it's already working. Then when do you decide to go 1.0 if you keep adding features and moving the goalpost? That's kind of tricky for open source projects that don't have commercial releases.

If you have release criteria, sure, bump to 1.0 when you hit them. But if you don't have release criteria, just name it 1.0 and go from there. Version numbers don't matter as much as people think they do. This way we can avoid people having to type "0.7", "0.8" etc for 17 years instead of just "7" and "8".

Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Post by LeoPanthera »

jdcarter wrote: post #20

Happy to see IRC still going strong. While I switched to irccloud.com a couple years ago--persistent session is so nice, especially for mobile!--I used CLI clients for years before. Amusing blast from the past: back in the 90's I worked at General Magic, and wrote my own IRC client [1] for our handheld devices. I attached a Metricom wireless modem to the bottom of mine and could be on IRC from anywhere ; it was like…

Does it not bother you that irccloud can see everything you type/read on IRC?

Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Post by ticoombs »

jdcarter wrote: post #20

Happy to see IRC still going strong. While I switched to irccloud.com a couple years ago--persistent session is so nice, especially for mobile!--I used CLI clients for years before. Amusing blast from the past: back in the 90's I worked at General Magic, and wrote my own IRC client [1] for our handheld devices. I attached a Metricom wireless modem to the bottom of mine and could be on IRC from anywhere ; it was like…

Why but just run a bouncer like znc?

I even have push notifications when I get tagged or a add a special keyword.

Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Post by marsrover »

Wow, I would have guessed Irssi passed version 1.0.0 a long long time ago. I've been using it at least 10 years and it's a great and stable application.

I guess that goes to show how much I pay attention to versions.

Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Post by kobeya »

jdcarter wrote: post #20

Happy to see IRC still going strong. While I switched to irccloud.com a couple years ago--persistent session is so nice, especially for mobile!--I used CLI clients for years before. Amusing blast from the past: back in the 90's I worked at General Magic, and wrote my own IRC client [1] for our handheld devices. I attached a Metricom wireless modem to the bottom of mine and could be on IRC from anywhere ; it was like…

You can run irrsi in tmux.

Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Post by [deleted] »

jdcarter wrote: post #20

Happy to see IRC still going strong. While I switched to irccloud.com a couple years ago--persistent session is so nice, especially for mobile!--I used CLI clients for years before. Amusing blast from the past: back in the 90's I worked at General Magic, and wrote my own IRC client [1] for our handheld devices. I attached a Metricom wireless modem to the bottom of mine and could be on IRC from anywhere ; it was like…

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Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Post by throwaway112e8 »

ticoombs wrote: post #34
jdcarter wrote: post #20

Happy to see IRC still going strong. While I switched to irccloud.com a couple years ago--persistent session is so nice, especially for mobile!--I used CLI clients for years before. Amusing blast from the past: back in the 90's I worked at General Magic, and wrote my own IRC client [1] for our handheld devices. I attached a Metricom wireless modem to the bottom of mine and could be on IRC from anywhere ; it was like…

Why but just run a bouncer like znc? I even have push notifications when I get tagged or a add a special keyword.

I like ircloud https://www.irccloud.com/, it's not free but takes care of a lot of that and nice to access anywhere.

Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Post by btreecat »

kobeya wrote: post #36
jdcarter wrote: post #20

Happy to see IRC still going strong. While I switched to irccloud.com a couple years ago--persistent session is so nice, especially for mobile!--I used CLI clients for years before. Amusing blast from the past: back in the 90's I worked at General Magic, and wrote my own IRC client [1] for our handheld devices. I attached a Metricom wireless modem to the bottom of mine and could be on IRC from anywhere ; it was like…

You can run irrsi in tmux.

That's how I have my weechat client setup on my VPS

Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Post by marsrover »

jdcarter wrote: post #20

Happy to see IRC still going strong. While I switched to irccloud.com a couple years ago--persistent session is so nice, especially for mobile!--I used CLI clients for years before. Amusing blast from the past: back in the 90's I worked at General Magic, and wrote my own IRC client [1] for our handheld devices. I attached a Metricom wireless modem to the bottom of mine and could be on IRC from anywhere ; it was like…

I'm also glad to see IRC still going strong. I much prefer IRC to StackExchange (not to diminish StackExchange, it's an amazing website) when looking for answers to questions. Not because I always get an answer, but when I do it's pretty quick and it's nice to have a direct conversation with the person who is helping.

In addition, there are a lot of nice little channels out there that are just fun to hang out in.

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