Re: Retiring xchat and letting hexchat replace it

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On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 10:42 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 04:51:35PM +0000, Debarshi Ray 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?

+1 from me
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