by siyb

Eight days after the release of version 1.1, version 1.2 has been completed and may be acquired from our Debian depot or its git repository. The plugin loader as well as the clientsettings option window have been remodeled and plugins are now provided as special formatted tarballs that can be easily installed using the well known plugin installer. Additionally, the IRC away system has been fully implemented now and is therefore ready to be used.

Some nasty and pretty annoying bugs have also been fixed, for instance, all channelflags will be excluded from the nick autocompletion now. For a full list of changes, bugfixes and additions please take a look at the changelog. Windows users will not be able to run this version of tIRC, I simply do not have enough time to modify the code so that it is fully windows compliant.

The platform independence of tIRC defiantly is an important matter, as the client was in fact designed to run on many different platforms, but ever since the introduction of the trayicon and the trayicon flashing mechanism in particular, platform independence was at stake, due to the two completely different approaches of winico, that relies on the windows api and Freedock. The tIRC project is therefore looking for a windows maintainer / packager that is capable of fixing windows related issues within the tIRC code as well as creating full installer packages, for one click installations.

If you are an interested, capable and motivated windows user, that is willing to invest some time and sweat creating a tIRC windows port please let me know. In the meantime, if you are using Windows and want to run tIRC you will have to find a workaround yourself, submit your patch if you did :>.