Re: Retiring xchat and letting hexchat replace it

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I use xchat for testing as it is much easier to cut paste a favorite channels list into freenode in one step when testing a new install for #qa. Hex chat requires adding them one at a time

> On Feb 23, 2017, at 8:51 AM, 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?
> 
> 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
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