HydraIRC

This is Surena karimpour (SurenaSKQ)'s distribution of Hydra IRC.

HydraIRC is an IRC client for windows. HydraIRC is released under GNU GPL v3 license. See license.txt for details.

Reporting bugs

Please use the issue tracker to report bugs.

Contributing

To contribute to this distribution; open issues, help with the docs or open feature requests!
As always; code contributions are most-welcome.

Project Status

The project has been dormant from around 2009 to 2014, by moving the code to github and changing the license to GPL3
it is hoped that people will contribute to the project.

Currently; this fork of HydraIRC is under active development; updating the project and its libraries over time.

A 1:1 port to WTL v9 was done as a part of compiler upgrade project (github; now closed); And currently i have a project to make Hydra IRC work with windows notifications on Windows 10/8 (and a fallback solution in older versions of windows)

Project cleanup and distribution guidlines are also in works.

Code

The project suffers from many bad development practices primarly the very tight coupling of some key parts of code.
The coupling problem is not insurmountable but it needs cleaning up and decoupling badly.

A port to newer compiler/libraries is in progress. Currently updated to VS2017; but this port isnt clean yet.
However; vs2017 port works; so releases are based upon it.

Technologies

HydraIRC uses WTL, WTL has not seen much love from Microsoft in recent years.

License

The license for the source is now GPL v3 - many of the source code files still refer to the old license, these references
are outdated as of 1st October 2014 and will be replaced with the GPL header.