I'm considering maintaining Irssi, which I've been distributing from http://www.pervalidus.net/cygwin/irssi/ since January. Until now I only received a "bug" report, but it was about the cygwin terminfo file, which has been fixed in 5.3-3.
Quoting the man page: "Irssi is a modular Internet Relay Chat client. It is highly extensible and very secure. Being a fullscreen, termcap based client with many features, Irssi is easily extensible through scripts and modules." http://www.pervalidus.net/cygwin/irssi/download/irssi-0.8.6-20030709-1.tar.bz2 http://www.pervalidus.net/cygwin/irssi/download/irssi-0.8.6-20030709-1.src.tar.bz2 http://www.pervalidus.net/cygwin/irssi/download/setup.hint http://www.pervalidus.net/cygwin/irssi/download/setup.bz2 So, you can presumably install it pointing setup.exe to http://www.pervalidus.net/cygwin/irssi/download/ . /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/irssi-0.8.6-20030709.README contains some information. Irssi is modular (like LFTP), so we could have libfe_irc_dcc libfe_irc_notifylist libirc_bot libirc_dcc libirc_flood libirc_notifylist libproxy and libfe_perl in /usr/lib/irssi/modules/ , but it requires some changes, so let's start without them. I'll first test the modules (with Perl) on Linux, where they should compile OOTB, and see how it works. A drawback without modules is that I had to use --with-proxy --with-modules=proxy to enable the proxy support. Not being a module it's always loaded, so better not ignore Warning!! Password not specified, everyone can use this proxy! Use /set irssiproxy_password <password> to set it when you start it for the first time. I could just compile without it, but I feel some people may want to use it. Not an issue if it doesn't get included in Cygwin. A link in http://cygwin.com/ported.html would be fine though. BTW, the "micq 0.4.8" link is broken, so if you want point mICQ to http://www.pervalidus.net/cygwin/micq/ . Also, I really hope in the future GLib gets included in Cygwin, so Midnight Commander, Irssi, and others can take advantage of it and stop linking against the static libraries.
