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Circe, a Client for IRC in Emacs
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DCC support #21

Open jorgenschaefer opened 11 years ago

jorgenschaefer commented 11 years ago

Emacs nowadays doesn't need a hack with a subprocess anymore. Implementing circe-dcc.el could be a fun exercise.

jorgenschaefer commented 11 years ago

I had totally forgotten how baroque the whole DCC stuff is :-D

DCC SEND in particular is extremely bad. Considering how rarely any of this is used anymore, I'm not sure how much effort I want to put into this.

twopir commented 11 years ago

I propose close/wontfix until someone actually demands this.

jorgenschaefer commented 11 years ago

How do I signify "I demand this" other than creating an issue?

jorgenschaefer commented 11 years ago

Though I think restricting this to DCC CHAT would be ok. There are plenty of sensible alternatives to DCC SEND (paste servers, google drive/dropbox, webservers, etc.) that are all not braindead like DCC SEND is …