From: Alexander Barton Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 21:54:01 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Prepare documentation for release 0.9.0 ... X-Git-Tag: rel-0-9-0-pre1~11 X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd-alex.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=eeccc193dd9111295211eaf22d6cc4f0d2a91016 Prepare documentation for release 0.9.0 ... --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 06cc29f3..8cf218bb 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ ngIRCd CVSHEAD - Don't generate error messages for unknown commands received before the client is registered with the server (like the original ircd). - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID. - - Make netsplit messages RFC compliant. + - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant. - Fix handling of QUIT Messages: send only one message, even if the client is member of multiple channels. - Don't exit server if closing of a socket fails; instead ignore it and @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ ngIRCd CVSHEAD most probably other older C compilers on other systems. - When the daemon should switch to another user ID (ServerID is defined in the configuration file) and is not running in a chroot environment, it - changes it's working directory to the home directory of this user. This + changes its working directory to the home directory of this user. This should enable the system to write proper core files when not running with root privileges ... @@ -608,4 +608,4 @@ ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001 -- -$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.275 2005/06/24 20:56:46 alex Exp $ +$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.276 2005/06/26 21:54:01 alex Exp $ diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6d052b09..0972901c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -10,8 +10,10 @@ -- NEWS -- -ngIRCd CVSHEAD +ngIRCd 0.9.0 + - Never run with root privileges but always switch the user ID. + - Make "netsplit" messages RFC compliant. - Implemented the IRC function "WHOWAS". - New configuration option "OperServerMode" to enable a workaround needed when running an network with ircd2 servers and "OperCanUseMode" enabled @@ -206,4 +208,4 @@ ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001 -- -$Id: NEWS,v 1.73 2005/05/16 12:25:15 alex Exp $ +$Id: NEWS,v 1.74 2005/06/26 21:54:02 alex Exp $ diff --git a/README b/README index ee4ce5cf..7c6140ff 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,21 +1,19 @@ ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server - (c)2001-2004 by Alexander Barton, + (c)2001-2005 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 Relay Chat (IRC), which +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 @@ -25,15 +23,19 @@ generation IRC daemon", it's written from scratch and not deduced from the 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. -Till today (more or less complete) implemented IRC-commands: +In the meantime ngIRCd should be quite feature complete and stable to be +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. +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. III. Features (or: why use ngIRCd?) @@ -43,10 +45,8 @@ III. Features (or: why use ngIRCd?) - simple, easy understandable configuration file, - 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), Windows with Cygwin, and - OpenBSD (3.4/i386). +- 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 @@ -84,4 +84,4 @@ mail to: or -- -$Id: README,v 1.19 2004/05/07 11:19:20 alex Exp $ +$Id: README,v 1.20 2005/06/26 21:54:01 alex Exp $