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I was quite puzzled about this myself, but after asking the devs the official name is apperently X-Chat and not XChat, however the website says XChat and their internal documentation is never clear, sometimes one is used, sometimes it's the other.
While X-Chat is as i have been told XChat or xchat is a much more common way to refer to it, so i'm writing commonly here and not sometimes. -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 17:35, 2004 Jun 12 (UTC)
Not that I object to it or anything, but I was just wondering who made th decision to do it. GPHemsley 08:21, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
The homepage of the unofficial build of xchat seems to be down. Anyone got informations on this? -- Conti| ✉ 19:48, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC)
The link X-Chat on Windows Build Lineup appears to be thoroughly down. If the article has a maintainer, s/he should check up on it and remove the link or replace it with something else.
The only existing arhive.org version of the page can be found here. - Mardus 03:08, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
A bit misleading to say the Windows version is proprietary, no? It's GPL (besides the nagware portion, apparently) and it's allowed under the GPL to sell your software. Twinxor t 04:11, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
I thought you can charge under the gpl license:
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You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey, and you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee. -- TheGeekLord 00:16, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
How about the next time the screen-shots get done have them displaying the official xchat channel (irc.freenode.net #xchat) Peachey88 03:31, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Hate to deviate from more important issues, but I noticed that there was no X-Chat userbox. I decided to create one, but I think I'll need some help with it. What I have so far:
And:
X | This User talks on IRC using X-Chat. |
Could I have some feedback on these, and maybe some help correcting them? Thanks
Dracion
13:10, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Woops i didn't know you were working on one so i made this:
{{User:Peachey88/userboxes/XChat}}
I'm sure there are bugs or whatnot in it, so you find one or want to correct something feel free to edit it.
Peachey88
12:29, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
Despite being a huge fan of KDE, I feel this screenshot on this page should show XChat running under Gnome or Xfce as it is a GTK+ application and in the current screenshot it certainly looks uglier than it would under a GTK+ desktop environment. Anyone agree? Jackster ( talk) 22:38, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
The article makes it sounds like this IRC client is primarily for *nix systems, with a Windows port. But currently its Windows version is ahead of other versions, its development being more focused for the Windows version, while the new features getting ported into the other versions later. Ufopedia ( talk) 07:58, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
Regarding the following section: "(including at least C or C++, Perl, Python, Tcl, Ruby, Lua, CLISP, D, and DMDScript)". The CLISP plugin is from XChat 2.4 and hasn't been updated in a while (September 16, 2004), DMDScript was just before 2.6 (October 5, 2005), and I have been unable to locate a D plugin other than just the DMDScript. So the question becomes, how long should these be listed in the Plugin Various Languages? LifeIsPain ( talk) 21:27, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
Just cleaned up the external links section, just giving reasons for what I got rid of:
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I think X-Chat is not being developed anymore, so a fork called HexChat has started to take over its role. I'm not sure if that should be mentioned in this article, or if a new one should be made. I don't really know what the HexChat article should contain at this point, considering this article isn't too big as it is. Thoughts? CodeCat ( talk) 22:31, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
Who keeps saying it's unmaintained? That is incorrect. Thanks. -- 69.17.174.21 ( talk) 02:08, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
I removed a gratuitous line with a sort of flippant summary. Did anyone get some laughs out of it? Click here for it. -- Kaj Taj Mahal ( talk) 15:52, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
This article is for the now-defunct Xchat. I recommend creating a separate wiki page for Hexchat. At the moment, the wiki page Hexchat redirects to the xchat page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chocolatechip65 ( talk • contribs) 04:01, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
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First problem is that troughout most of the article there is almost no mention of HexChat, but most of it mentions XChat. The worst part is the Licensing section as it's mostly about the old shareware XChat for Windows; this is quite misleading as people may think HexChat is the same, which it never was.
I'll mark the article for cleanup and then we'll see what can be done...
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I was quite puzzled about this myself, but after asking the devs the official name is apperently X-Chat and not XChat, however the website says XChat and their internal documentation is never clear, sometimes one is used, sometimes it's the other.
While X-Chat is as i have been told XChat or xchat is a much more common way to refer to it, so i'm writing commonly here and not sometimes. -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 17:35, 2004 Jun 12 (UTC)
Not that I object to it or anything, but I was just wondering who made th decision to do it. GPHemsley 08:21, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
The homepage of the unofficial build of xchat seems to be down. Anyone got informations on this? -- Conti| ✉ 19:48, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC)
The link X-Chat on Windows Build Lineup appears to be thoroughly down. If the article has a maintainer, s/he should check up on it and remove the link or replace it with something else.
The only existing arhive.org version of the page can be found here. - Mardus 03:08, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
A bit misleading to say the Windows version is proprietary, no? It's GPL (besides the nagware portion, apparently) and it's allowed under the GPL to sell your software. Twinxor t 04:11, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
I thought you can charge under the gpl license:
4. Conveying Verbatim Copies.
You may convey verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice; keep intact all notices stating that this License and any non-permissive terms added in accord with section 7 apply to the code; keep intact all notices of the absence of any warranty; and give all recipients a copy of this License along with the Program.
You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey, and you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee. -- TheGeekLord 00:16, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
How about the next time the screen-shots get done have them displaying the official xchat channel (irc.freenode.net #xchat) Peachey88 03:31, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Hate to deviate from more important issues, but I noticed that there was no X-Chat userbox. I decided to create one, but I think I'll need some help with it. What I have so far:
And:
X | This User talks on IRC using X-Chat. |
Could I have some feedback on these, and maybe some help correcting them? Thanks
Dracion
13:10, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Woops i didn't know you were working on one so i made this:
{{User:Peachey88/userboxes/XChat}}
I'm sure there are bugs or whatnot in it, so you find one or want to correct something feel free to edit it.
Peachey88
12:29, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
Despite being a huge fan of KDE, I feel this screenshot on this page should show XChat running under Gnome or Xfce as it is a GTK+ application and in the current screenshot it certainly looks uglier than it would under a GTK+ desktop environment. Anyone agree? Jackster ( talk) 22:38, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
The article makes it sounds like this IRC client is primarily for *nix systems, with a Windows port. But currently its Windows version is ahead of other versions, its development being more focused for the Windows version, while the new features getting ported into the other versions later. Ufopedia ( talk) 07:58, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
Regarding the following section: "(including at least C or C++, Perl, Python, Tcl, Ruby, Lua, CLISP, D, and DMDScript)". The CLISP plugin is from XChat 2.4 and hasn't been updated in a while (September 16, 2004), DMDScript was just before 2.6 (October 5, 2005), and I have been unable to locate a D plugin other than just the DMDScript. So the question becomes, how long should these be listed in the Plugin Various Languages? LifeIsPain ( talk) 21:27, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
Just cleaned up the external links section, just giving reasons for what I got rid of:
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I think X-Chat is not being developed anymore, so a fork called HexChat has started to take over its role. I'm not sure if that should be mentioned in this article, or if a new one should be made. I don't really know what the HexChat article should contain at this point, considering this article isn't too big as it is. Thoughts? CodeCat ( talk) 22:31, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
Who keeps saying it's unmaintained? That is incorrect. Thanks. -- 69.17.174.21 ( talk) 02:08, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
I removed a gratuitous line with a sort of flippant summary. Did anyone get some laughs out of it? Click here for it. -- Kaj Taj Mahal ( talk) 15:52, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
This article is for the now-defunct Xchat. I recommend creating a separate wiki page for Hexchat. At the moment, the wiki page Hexchat redirects to the xchat page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chocolatechip65 ( talk • contribs) 04:01, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
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First problem is that troughout most of the article there is almost no mention of HexChat, but most of it mentions XChat. The worst part is the Licensing section as it's mostly about the old shareware XChat for Windows; this is quite misleading as people may think HexChat is the same, which it never was.
I'll mark the article for cleanup and then we'll see what can be done...