On 6/18/13 6:52 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote:
> On 6/18/2013 9:42 PM, Daniel Macks wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:00:03 -0700, Alexander Hansen
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 6/18/13 11:10 AM, Anderson Mesquita wrote:
>>>> I just noticed BitchX is not available yet on 10.7 and up. Does anybody
>>>> know if there's any plans for that in the near future?
>>>> I tried just grabbing the 10.4 release and compiling it, but that
>>>> doesn't work!
>>>>
>>>> http://pastebin.com/QG7tJGAm
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Anderson Mesquita
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> We're not regimented enough to have plans on non-base packages. :-)
>>> Standard practice has been for the maintainer or other folks to try
>>> the current or a new version.
>>
>> I get the same results on 10.8. The code is many years old and the
>> upstream project appears to be dead: there is a slightly newer version
>> available (1.1 from ~9 years ago), the release for which 1.0c19 is the
>> development leadup, and it also fails the same way. Maybe some other
>> developer has picked it up and now hosts it at some other site?
>
> According to Wikipedia, bitchx.com was hijacked and the proper site is
> bitchx.ca.  Don't know how trustworthy that information is, however.
> Neither Debian nor Ubuntu carry bitchx, but Fedora seems to have 1.2.1,
> fwiw.
>
> Hanspeter
>

https://github.com/BitchX/BitchX1.2/wiki seems consistent with that.

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/

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