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diff --git a/share/doc/readme.md b/share/doc/readme.md index 656e1dff..b07b4c2a 100644 --- a/share/doc/readme.md +++ b/share/doc/readme.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ # HexChat ReadMe X-Chat ("xchat") Copyright (c) 1998-2010 By Peter Zelezny. -HexChat ("hexchat") Copyright (c) 2009-2012 By Berke Viktor. +HexChat ("hexchat") Copyright (c) 2009-2013 By Berke Viktor. This program is released under the GPL v2 with the additional exemption that compiling, linking, and/or using OpenSSL is allowed. You may @@ -11,12 +11,14 @@ See file COPYING for details. For building instructions, see [Building](http://docs.hexchat.org/en/latest/building.html). + ## What is it? HexChat is an IRC client for Windows and UNIX operating systems. I.R.C. is Internet Relay Chat, see [IRCHelp.org](http://irchelp.org) for more information about IRC in general. HexChat runs on most BSD and POSIX compliant operating systems. + ## Requirements: * GTK+ 2.14 @@ -24,7 +26,7 @@ in general. HexChat runs on most BSD and POSIX compliant operating systems. HexChat is known to work on, at least: - * Windows XP/Vista/7/8 + * Windows Vista/7/8 * Linux * FreeBSD * OpenBSD @@ -42,40 +44,20 @@ HexChat is known to work on, at least: If you need your packages to work on i386, you don't need to compile with --disable-mmx, because it's also checked at run-time. -## Python Scripts: -Scripts for XChat 1.8.x are not compatible, a brand new interface has been written. For more info, see the [HexChat Python Interface](http://docs.hexchat.org/en/latest/script_python.html). +## Python Scripts: Consider using the Python interface for your scripts, it's a very nice API, allows for loading/unloading individual scripts, and gives you almost all the features of the C-Plugin API. +For more info, see the [HexChat Python Interface](http://docs.hexchat.org/en/latest/script_python.html). + ## Perl Scripts: Perl 5.8 or newer is required. For more info, see the [HexChat Perl Interface](http://docs.hexchat.org/en/latest/script_perl.html). -Scripts for XChat 1.8.x are compatible with the following exceptions: - - * IRC::command will not interpret %C, %B, %U etc. - - * user_list and user_list_short: - If a user has both op and voice, only the op flag will be 1. - - * add_user_list/sub_user_list/clear_user_list - These functions do nothing. - - * notify_list - Not implemented. Always returns an empty list. - - * server_list - Lists servers that are not connected aswell. - - * Some print events may have new names and some were added. - - * Text printed by scripts must now be UTF8. - - * Text passed to scripts (via add_message_handler) will be encoded in UTF8. ## Autoloading Scripts and Plugins: @@ -86,10 +68,8 @@ The root of your HexChat config is: Referred to as <config> from now. HexChat automatically loads, at startup: - * <config>/addons/*.lua Lua scripts * <config>/addons/*.pl Perl scripts * <config>/addons/*.py Python scripts - * <config>/addons/*.tcl Tcl scripts * <config>/addons/*.dll Plugins (Windows) * <config>/addons/*.so Plugins (Unix) |