WeeChat

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WeeChat
Developer Sébastien Helleu
Initial releaseJune 26, 2003;22 years ago (2003-06-26)
Stable release
4.8.1 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 1 December 2025
Repository
Written in C
Operating system Linux, BSD, OS X, GNU Hurd, Microsoft Windows (using Cygwin)
Size 17.2 MB
Available in14 languages [2]
Type IRC client
License GPL-3.0-or-later
Website weechat.org   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a free and open-source Internet Relay Chat client that is designed to be light and fast. It is released under the terms of the GNU GPL-3.0-or-later and has been developed since 2003.

Contents

WeeChat comes with a default ncurses interface, and it is possible to use other interfaces (e.g. Glowing Bear, [3] a web frontend) through the use of the relay plugin. [4]

Features

WeeChat's features include: [5]

Supported platforms

WeeChat supports most platforms and operating systems, including Linux, BSD, macOS, Debian GNU/Hurd, HP-UX, Solaris, QNX, Haiku, and Microsoft Windows (via the Cygwin library and API). [6]

Binary packages and builds of WeeChat are available for installation as well as the source code for self compilation. [7] This includes most Linux distributions and BSD package management systems, such as Debian, [8] Ubuntu, [9] Mandriva Linux, [10] Fedora, [11] Gentoo Linux, [12] Arch Linux, [13] FreeBSD via the FreeBSD Ports system, OpenBSD via the Ports collection, as well on NetBSD via Pkgsrc. [14]

Reception

In his review for Free Software Magazine, Martin Brown graded WeeChat with 43 points out of a possible 50, noting that "At first glance, WeeChat is not as friendly or easy to use as Rhapsody", but, "There’s a lot of hidden power built into the application", including Python, Perl, Ruby and Lua extensions which can be selected at installation. [15]

See also

References

  1. ↑ https://github.com/weechat/weechat/releases/tag/v4.8.1.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ↑ "WeeChat translations". WeeChat. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  3. ↑ "Glowing Bear - A web client for WeeChat". github.com. glowing-bear.org. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
  4. ↑ Helleu, Sébastien. "WeeChat user's guide". weechat.org. Retrieved 2017-09-27.
  5. ↑ "WeeChat :: about :: Features". weechat.org. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
  6. ↑ "WeeChat in Cygwin". weechat.org. 2013-10-19. Retrieved 2014-08-06.
  7. ↑ "WeeChat: Downloads". weechat.org. 2009-03-04. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
  8. ↑ "Debian: WeeChat packages". packages.debian.org. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
  9. ↑ "Ubuntu: WeeChat packages". packages.ubuntu.org. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
  10. ↑ "Mandriva: WeeChat packages". mandriva.com. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
  11. ↑ "Fedora: WeeChat packages". fedoraproject.org. Retrieved 2009-04-14.[ permanent dead link ]
  12. ↑ "Gentoo: WeeChat packages". gentoo.org. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
  13. ↑ "Arch Linux: WeeChat packages". archlinux.org. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
  14. ↑ "FreeBSD Ports: WeeChat". freebsd.org. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
  15. ↑ Brown, Martin (2005-09-07). "Free IRC clients : Choosing the best IRC client for your needs". Free Software Magazine (7). Retrieved 2014-01-28.
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