Irssi

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Irssi
Original author(s)Timo Sirainen
Developer(s)The Irssi team
Initial releaseJanuary 1999; 25 years ago (1999-01)[1]
Stable release
1.4.5[2] Edit this on Wikidata / 3 October 2023
Repository
Written in
IRC client
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later[4]
Websiteirssi.org

Irssi (Finnish pronunciation:

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client program for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Microsoft Windows. It was originally written by Timo Sirainen, and released under the terms of the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later in January 1999.[1]

The program has a

Windows and macOS
.

Features

Irssi is written in the

text-mode user interface.[5]

According to the developers, Irssi was written from scratch, not based on

scripts have been made available for Irssi to customise how it looks and operates.[7] Plugins are available which add encryption[8][9] and protocols such as ICQ and XMPP.[10][11]

Irssi may be configured by using its user interface or by manually editing its configuration files, which use a syntax resembling Perl data structures.[5]

Distributions

Irssi was written primarily to run on

Ubuntu,[13] NixOS,[15]
and others.

Irssi builds and runs on Microsoft Windows under Cygwin, and in 2006, an official Windows standalone build was released.[16]

For the Unix-based

Colloquy was previously based on Irssi,[17] but it now uses its own IRC core implementation.[18]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Manual. irssi.org.
  2. ^ "Release 1.4.5". 3 October 2023. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  3. ^ "Irssi". GitHub.
  4. ^ irssi v. 0.8.16 source files (e.g. irssi-0.8.16/src/core/core.c)
  5. ^ a b Danen, Vincent (May 5, 2008). "Try IRC with Irssi to communicate via chat". TechRepublic. ZDnetAsia.com. Archived from the original on December 27, 2009. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
  6. ^ a b Sirainen, Timo. "About". Irssi.org. Archived from the original on 2001-04-05.
  7. ISBN 0-596-00687-X
    .
  8. ^ SILC encryption plugin. penguin-breeder.org
  9. ^ FiSH encryption plugin. Secure.la.
  10. ^ ICQ plugin sourcecode Archived 2006-07-19 at the Wayback Machine. berlios.de.
  11. ^ Didier, Colin Jabber/Xmpp plugin. cybione.org.
  12. OpenBSD ports
    . 2018-02-27. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
  13. ^ a b c Downloads. irssi.org.
  14. ^ "Arch Linux - Package Database". archlinux.org.
  15. ^ "NixOS - Package Database". nixos.org.
  16. ^ "Download". Irssi.org. Archived from the original on 2006-11-15.
  17. ^ Smykil, Jeff (August 21, 2005). "In the Loop with Tim Hatcher". Ars Technica
  18. ^ Hatcher, Tim (February 11, 2006). "Changeset 3129: Remove Irssi from the project" Archived 2008-10-14 at the Wayback Machine. Colloquy.info.

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