xIrc - An X11 based IRC client / News: Recent posts

NightBird announces the release of xIrc-2.3.8. This distribution includes source, source RPM, and i386 binary RPM file, which was compiled on SuSE Linux 7.0 using Qt-2.2.4. The home page for xIrc is http://www.linuxlots.com/~xirc/ and the alternate web page, hosted by SourceForge is located at http://xIrc.sourceforge.net.

Summary of changes are a fix to configuring source file to select the proper Qt files in Linux distributions and minor bug fixes. ... read more

The xIrc project has been with SourceForget (http://sourceforge.net) for one year now. The project team thanks its user base for its support and patronage. With the new release of KDE 2.1, KDevelop 1.4, and Qt-2.2.4 (or higher), the project team will investigate these new releases and incorporate new features.

Troll Tech (http://www.trolltech.com) releases version 2.3 of the Qt GUI. The following link contains information regarding the new release of Qt - http://www.trolltech.com/company/announce/qt-230.html. At this time the xIrc project is still working with Qt-2.1.1.

xIrc - an X11 based IRC client - is written in C++ and the Trolltech Qt widgets library GUI. xIrc (http://www.linuxlots/~xirc/) is managed by NightBird (nightbird at users dot sourceforge dot net).

KDevelop Team releases version 1.4 of KDevelop, the tool used by the xIrc team. More information at http://www.kdevelop.org/.

xIrc - a X11 based IRC client - is written using C++ and the Trolltech Qt Widget Library classes. The xIrc Project (http://www.linuxlots/~xirc/) is managed by NightBird (nightbird at users dot sourceforge dot net). xIrc was originally developed by Joe Croft (joe@croftj.net).

The KDE has released version 2.1. It is available at http://www.kde.org.

xIrc - a X11 based IRC client - is written using C++ and the Trolltech Qt Widget Library classes. The xIrc project is managed and maintained by NightBird (nightbird@users.sourceforge.net). The original xIrc program was developed by Joe Croft (joe@croftj.net).

Troll Tech (http://www.trolltech.com/) announces the release of Qt-2.2.4. The following link contains information regarding the new release http://www.trolltech.com/company/announce/qt-224.html. At this time, the xIrc Project is still working with Qt-2.1.1.

xIrc - a X11 based IRC client - is written using C++ and the Trolltech Qt Widget Library classes. xIrc Project (http://www.linuxlots/~xirc/) is managed by NightBird (nightbird at users dot sourceforge dot net)

You also download xIrc-2.3.7-1.i386.rpm and xIrc-2.3.7-1.src.rpm files at SuSE Linux FTP server at the following URL: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/contrib/madefor70.

xIrc is an IRC client written using the Troll Tech's Qt widget framework. The current maintainer is NightBird (nightbird@users.sourceforge.net), who works on xIrc on his spare time.

xIrc-2.4pre3 is a development release. There are enhancements over the xIrc-2.3.x release and many more new features to come. The xIrc home page is at http://www.linuxlots.com/~xirc/ and the Project Summary is located at http://sourceforge.net/projects/xirc/.

The project administrator is NightBird (aka Robert Borrell <borrell@pobox.com>). xIrc was originally developed by Joe Croft <croftj@croftj.net>

There are two new sites referencing xIrc application. The first site is http://apps.kde.com. Look in the categories for Enterprise, Communications, Irc. The second site referencing xIrc is http://computerland.de, a German download website.

The xIrc team welcomes the extra proliferation by other sites.

xIrc is available in the axp1 directory of SuSE Linux. Current SuSE Linux 6.3 to 7.0 has an rpm called xirc.rpm, which is the xIrc-2.3.2 program. After the Project manager NightBird contacted the current xirc maintainer for SuSE Linux, he will included current and new releases of xIrc in future distributions of SuSE Linux. The xIrc download directory is being mirrorred by SuSE Linux.

The xIrc programming staff wishes all xIrc users a happy new year.

NightBird announces the release of xIrc-2.3.7. This distribution includes source, source RPM, and i386 binary RPM file, which was compiled on SuSE Linux 7.0 using Qt-2.1.1. The home page for xIrc is http://www.linuxlots.com/~xirc/ and the alternate web page, hosted by SourceForge is located at http://xIrc.sourceforge.net.

Summary of changes are a fix to configuring source file to select the proper Qt files in Linux distributions and minor bug fixes.... read more

xIrc-2.4pre2 is a development release. There are enhancements over the xIrc-2.3.x release and many more new features to come. The xIrc home page is at
http://www.linuxlots.com/~xirc or alternative home, hosted by Source Forge, is
http://xIrc.sourceforge.net/.

The project administrator is NightBird (aka Robert Borrell <borrell@pobox.com>). xIrc was originally developed by Joe Croft <croftj@croftj.net>

xIrc reached another milestone - over 4,000 downloads. I am satisified of xIrc's progress during the last five months. Many code corrections have been made and several releases followed suite with new Qt Widget Library upgrades. Still, the xIrc's code needs review, analysis, and, of course, enhancements as well as the documentation. xIrc-2.3.7 is expected to be released at the end of August. I fixed some compiling warnings, but no major fixes or enhancements.... read more

Due to low demand, I discontinued the creation of Solaris 7 x86 binaries with xIrc. Nevertheless, the Source RPM and binary RPM files are available for Linux. See http://xIrc.sourceforge.net/download.html to download RPM files.

The pre-compiled Linux RPM file for xIrc-2.3.6 is available at http://xIrc.sourceforge.net/download.html. The file requires Qt-2.1.1 or higher and glibc-2.1 or higher.

You can download the source RPM for xIrc-2.3.6. It is available at http://xIrc.sourceforge.net/download.html.

xIrc-2.4pre1 is a development release. There are enhancements over the xIrc-2.3.x release and many more new features to come. The xIrc home page is at http://www.linuxlots.com/~xirc or alternative home, hosted by Source Forge, is http://xIrc.sourceforge.net/.

xIrc is now ported to use Qt 2.1.1 or higher Widget Library. With this Qt widget library, many fixes to messages display to the main window were fixed. The tarball is availabe on the download page.