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

On 14 Jul 2010, at 14:28, Joseph Xu wrote:

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

I do like the minimal interface, especially sending messages entered
in the server console straight to the server rather than using /
commands.

>
>>
>> But I do praise the choice of Tk for the gui.
>>
>> uriel
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
Received on Wed Jul 14 2010 - 17:24:07 CEST