I usually don’t review IRC clients. I’ve used irssi successfully for years, and have continued using it even when I bought my Mac Pro, then my MacBook Pro. It’s been a faithful servant, allowing me to emote and chat to thousands of people around the world about things from television shows to why monkeys have tails.
However, I have gotten back into the scripting side of things, and was having three particular problems: (1) MacIrssi doesn’t do Perl very well. (2) You have to install ‘irssi’ through MacPorts. (3) Irssi doesn’t compile when you add the Perl option to the build.
All of this equates to pain.
Well, after installing XCode and getting the compilers and MacPorts in working order, then attempting to install ‘irssi’, I was left wanting. By wanting, I mean that no matter what happened, it would not compile with scripting support.
This is where WeeChat comes in. Now granted, I’m not going to write the überbot or create SkyNet with the client, but I’d like to sculpt some custom commands with what little knowledge I have with Perl.
It’s something to look at if your interested in the command-line interface IRC chat client group.
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I was looking at the article and failed to mention that this is a linux program. If you’re running linux already it may be part of your distro. It’s a good client, and it’s grown on me considerably since I wrote this.