One of the many projects I am currently working on starts to get a clear shape. The project has been developed for about two month now and today I can finally announce, that the first usable snapshot is completed and ready to be downloaded from our git repository. tIRC is written in TCL/TK and should therefore be platform independent, it has been tested on Linux and Windows and although there seem to be some performance implications on Windows (tested with ActiveTcl8.5) it is most certainly runnable. Nevertheless you should remember that this still is a very early version and that the state of the application does not represent a full featured IRC client by any means.
tIRC comes with 3 different themes and icon sets, that can easily be adjusted. Additionally, the release features a ported version of my Amarok.tcl script for xChat, that can be loaded on demand. tIRC is released under the GPL and might therefore be modified and distributed freely, please refer to the GPL in order to get an overview of what is and what isn’t allowed.
As the bugreport feature of tIRC is not implemented yet, you need to report bugs manually by visiting our bugtracker.
Why yet another IRC client and why the heck should I use it? tIRC as such is very lightweight, the whole client is about 122kb in size and consists of a few thousand lines of code only. tIRC is flexible, the modular buildup of tIRC allows easy extension by using TCL/TK, we are not only talking about usual plugins, even the appearance and layout of the client can be modified using the provided plugin interface. All functionalities of the client may be overridden or modified by extensions. Finally tIRC is free software and if you don’t like it you can just wipe it of your hard drive.
Note for developers:
I would appreciate if more developers would be willing to join the tIRC “team” (can’t call it team yet with one person working on the sourcecode :>) or create packages for their distributions / OSes. Please contact me if you are interested in participating in any way.
