Re: Retiring xchat and letting hexchat replace it

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On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 16:51:35 +0000
Debarshi Ray <rishi.is@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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?

Seems like a great idea. :) 

kevin

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