X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd-alex.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=52cc11f4337d69c5e53b7635e3e90f0233199536;hp=7c6140ff98b08a05bb615594d9b22cb099774fb3;hb=cedba36965c3b89a5ab7222764bd751fd7fc88bf;hpb=eeccc193dd9111295211eaf22d6cc4f0d2a91016 diff --git a/README b/README index 7c6140ff..52cc11f4 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,9 +1,8 @@ ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server + http://ngircd.barton.de/ - (c)2001-2005 Alexander Barton, - alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/ - + (c)2001-2015 Alexander Barton and Contributors. ngIRCd is free software and published under the terms of the GNU General Public License. @@ -13,17 +12,23 @@ I. Introduction ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -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. +ngIRCd is a free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server for +small or private networks, developed under the GNU General Public License +(GPL; please see the file COPYING for details). It is simple to configure, +can cope with dynamic IP addresses, and supports IPv6 as well as SSL. It is +written from scratch and not based on the original IRCd. + +The name ngIRCd means next generation IRC daemon, which is a little bit +exaggerated: lightweight Internet Relay Chat server most probably would be a +better name :-) + +Please see the INSTALL document for installation and upgrade information! II. Status ~~~~~~~~~~~ -It is not the goal of ngIRCd to implement all the nasty behaviours of the +It is not the goal of ngIRCd to implement all the nasty behaviors of the original ircd, but to implement most of the useful commands and semantics specified by the RFCs. @@ -32,41 +37,44 @@ used in real IRC networks. Implemented IRC-commands are: -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, WHO, WHOIS, WHOWAS. - +ADMIN, AWAY, CHANINFO, CONNECT, DIE, DISCONNECT, ERROR, GLINE, HELP, INFO, +INVITE, ISON, JOIN, KICK, KILL, KLINE, LINKS, LIST, LUSERS, MODE, MOTD, +NAMES, NICK, NJOIN, NOTICE, OPER, PART, PASS, PING, PONG, PRIVMSG, QUIT, +REHASH, RESTART, SERVER, SERVICE, SERVLIST, SQUERY, SQUIT, STATS, SUMMON, +TIME, TOPIC, TRACE, USER, USERHOST, USERS, VERSION, WALLOPS, WEBIRC, WHO, +WHOIS, WHOWAS. III. Features (or: why use ngIRCd?) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- no problems with servers which have dynamic IP addresses -- simple, easy understandable configuration file, -- freely published open-source C source code, -- ngIRCd will be developed on in the future. +- well arranged (lean) configuration file +- simple to build/install, configure and maintain +- supports IPv6 and SSL +- no problems with servers that have dynamic IP addresses +- freely available, modern, portable and tidy C-source - wide field of supported platforms, including AIX, A/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows with Cygwin. +- ngIRCd is being actively developed since 2001. IV. Documentation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ More documentation can be found in the "doc/" directory and the homepage of -the ngIRCd: . +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 latest development 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". +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: ). VI. Bugs @@ -75,13 +83,11 @@ 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 known bugs and limitations, too. -If you have critics, patches or something else, please feel free to post a -mail to: or - - --- -$Id: README,v 1.20 2005/06/26 21:54:01 alex Exp $ +If you have comments, patches or something else, please feel free to post +a mail to the ngIRCd mailing list: (please see + for details) or join the ngIRCd IRC +channel: .