Re: [dev] merp is a loneliness mitigation device written in python and Tk

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Uriel <uriel_AT_berlinblue.org> wrote:
> The ircfs site t is up now:
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> http://www.ueber.net/code/r/ircfs
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> ircfs is great, and its gui is great too, and mjl is a great hacker.

Thanks for linking this.

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> And does the world really need yet another python irc client? And I'm
> not sure what makes merp particularly 'suckless' (whatever anything
> written in Python can be 'suckless' is very questionable).

I agree that python requires relatively more infrastructure and is not
suckless. I never claimed merp is suckless in terms of implementation
as it was only meant to be a prototype and had to work in Windows, but
I think its minimal interface makes it conducive to a suckless
implementation in some simpler language. I was thinking that when the
Go graphics package becomes more usable, I'd like to try to make a Go
version.

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> But I do praise the choice of Tk for the gui.
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> uriel
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> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:24 PM, hiro <23hiro_AT_googlemail.com> wrote:
>> The old wmii community probably knows that one well enough, but for
>> all the others I'd like to promote ircfs from Mechiel Lukkien. It runs
>> on inferno and includes a 9p server and tk client.
>> Sadly his site is currently down, but here's a paper from him:
>> http://4e.iwp9.org/papers/ircfs.pdf
>>
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Received on Wed Jul 14 2010 - 15:28:53 CEST