X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd-alex.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=2eff7bce0c34d5fcd726dfd4a002179f2aeaec2b;hp=372498d8ef370059e39b3f087b196fe01e7680d7;hb=44acf41cc172e8131c3a987d430b9f948afd26ad;hpb=f39d6285125166aba022ef03249a94508bbddf33 diff --git a/README b/README index 372498d8..2eff7bce 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,71 +1,75 @@ + ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server - (c)2001,2002 by Alexander Barton, + (c)2001-2007 Alexander Barton, alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/ ngIRCd is free software and published under the terms of the GNU General Public License. -- README -- - - Ilja Osthoff, I. Introduction ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -ngIRCd is an Open-Source server for the Internet Realy Chat (IRC), which -is developped and published under the terms of the GNU General Public +ngIRCd is an Open Source server for the Internet Relay Chat (IRC), which +is developed and published under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence (URL: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html). ngIRCd means "next generation IRC daemon", it's written from scratch and not deduced from the "grandfather of IRC daemons", the daemon of the IRCNet. +Please see the INSTALL document for installation and upgrade information! II. Status ~~~~~~~~~~~ -At present, the ngIRCd is under active development, some features are not -implemented, some only partly. +It is not the goal of ngIRCd to implement all the nasty behaviours of the +original ircd, but to implement most of the useful commands and semantics +specified by the RFCs. + +In the meantime ngIRCd should be quite feature complete and stable to be +used in real IRC networks. -Till today (more or less complete) implemented IRC-commands: +Implemented IRC-commands are: -ADMIN, AWAY, CHANINFO, CONNECT, DIE, ERROR, INVITE, ISON, JOIN, KICK, KILL, -LINKS, LIST, LUSERS, MODE, MOTD, NAMES, NICK, NJOIN, NOTICE, OPER, PART, -PASS, PING, PONG, PRIVMSG, QUIT, RESTART, SERVER, SQUIT, TIME, TOPIC, -USERHOST, USER, VERSION, WHO, WHOIS. +ADMIN, AWAY, CHANINFO, CONNECT, DIE, DISCONNECT, ERROR, HELP, INVITE, ISON, +JOIN, KICK, KILL, LINKS, LIST, LUSERS, MODE, MOTD, NAMES, NICK, NJOIN, NOTICE, +OPER, PART, PASS, PING, PONG, PRIVMSG, QUIT, REHASH, RESTART, SERVER, SQUIT, +STATS, TIME, TOPIC, TRACE, USER, USERHOST, VERSION, WALLOPS, WHO, WHOIS, +WHOWAS. III. Features (or: why use ngIRCd?) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- no problems with servers which have dynamic ip-adresses +- no problems with servers which have dynamic IP addresses - simple, easy understandable configuration file, -- freely published C-Sourcecode, +- freely published open-source C source code, - ngIRCd will be developed on in the future. -- supported platforms (tested versions): AIX (3.2.5), A/UX (3.0.1), FreeBSD - (4.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), Linux (2.x), Mac OS X (10.x), NetBSD - (1.5.2/i386, 1.5.3/m68k), Solaris (2.5.1, 2.6), and Windows with Cygwin. +- wide field of supported platforms, including AIX, A/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, + IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows with Cygwin. IV. Documentation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -More documentation can be found in the "doc/" directory (in english). Please -have a look at "doc/de/" if you are looking for german documentation. +More documentation can be found in the "doc/" directory and the homepage of +the ngIRCd: . V. Download ~~~~~~~~~~~ -The homepage of the ngIRCd is: ; you -will find the newest information about the ngIRCd and the most recent -("stable") releases there. +The homepage of the ngIRCd is: ; you will find +the newest information about the ngIRCd and the most recent ("stable") +releases there. -If you are interested in the newest developper-versions (which are not -always stable), then please read the section "CVS" on the homepage and -the file "doc/CVS.txt" which describes the use of CVS, the "Concurrent -Versioning System". +If you are interested in the latest development versions (which are not +always stable), then please read the section about "GIT" on the homepage and +the file "doc/GIT.txt" which describes the use of GIT, the version control +system used by ngIRCd (homepage: http://git.or.cz/). VI. Bugs @@ -74,13 +78,10 @@ VI. Bugs If you find bugs in the ngIRCd (which might be there :-), please report them at the following URL: - - -There you can read about kown bugs, too. - -If you have critics, patches or something else, please feel yourself free -to post a mail to: or + +There you can read about known bugs and limitations, too. --- -$Id: README,v 1.15 2003/01/04 13:12:39 alex Exp $ +If you have critics, patches or something else, please feel free to post a +mail to the ngIRCd mailing list: (please see + for details).