+1 from me Christian ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Debarshi Ray" <rishi.is@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "Fedora Desktop" <desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "Patrick Griffis" <tingping@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 11:51:35 AM > Subject: Retiring xchat and letting hexchat replace it > > Hey, > > I have been thinking of retiring xchat from Fedora, and let hexchat > take over as its natural replacement. Historically, xchat has been quite > popular, so I thought I'd mention it here before removing it from the > distribution. > > XChat is dead [1] and the last upstream release was seven years ago > [2]. On the other hand, HexChat [3] has been a part of Fedora for the > last four years, upstream [4] (CCed) is involved in both the Fedora > and GNOME communties, and I learnt that the MATE spin already ships it > by default. > > What do you think? > > Cheers, > Rishi > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XChat > [2] http://xchat.org/ > [3] https://hexchat.github.io/ > [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tingping > _______________________________________________ > desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
