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Does Pidgin do IRC? I didn't think it did. I wanted to switch to Pidgin a while back because it had support for the kind of encryption I wanted (public key) an
by click170 15y ago
Does Pidgin do IRC? I didn't think it did.
I wanted to switch to Pidgin a while back because it had support for the kind of encryption I wanted (public key) and Adium didn't, but I ended up not doing it and I thought the reason was because Pidgin doesn't do IRC.
Am I misinformed?
- StavrosK 15y agoI just checked to make sure, it does. I think it's had it for years, too.
- saurik 15y agoYep: Pidgen has supported IRC so long that back when I was still using it, and the project hadn't yet been renamed from Gaim, it already supported it; it had a few stupidities, and didn't support userhost-masks for buddy bindings (something that simply "makes sense" if you use IRC enough), but it definitely worked and still does (I have friends who use it all the time for IRC, and one who even contributes patches to it).
- sciurus 15y agoIRC is listed as a supported protocol on the front page of http://www.pidgin.im/ http://www.pidgin.im/
- krakensden 15y agoThe Pidgin developers are also the libpurple developers- if Adium supports it, so does Pidgin.
- onedognight 15y agoThis hasn't always gone the other way however. Adium finally added support for IRC recently, though pidgin and libpurple have had it for years.
- Terretta 15y agoBoth Pidgin and Adium are based on libpurple[1], which does support IRC. 1. http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhatIsLibpurple http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhatIsLibpurple "Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr."[2] 2. http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/pidgin http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/pidgin
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