[dcc2] Is DCC2 Dead?

[Theo Julienne]

I agree with you there, it needs to be implemented after the changes 
that were discussed, so we need to get things rolling and get the draft 
ammended. Maybe a wiki-style thing may work..

- Theo

codemastr wrote:

>
>> I'm all up for getting what's already decided on implemented in Bersirc
>> 2.2.x.
>>
>> - Theo
>
>
> Well, what exactly should be implemented? The draft? Or the draft 
> after the discussions? Meaning, we agreed on a bunch of new stuff, 
> like shortening token names, possible support for compression of file 
> sends, etc. None of that stuff is mentioned in the draft however. So 
> if you implement from the draft, then you will be incompatible when 
> these changes are added, and if you don't implement from the draft... 
> well, then we're already coming up with "implementation specific" 
> ideas even before the protocol has been standardized ;-)
>
> I personally think the best thing to do would be to try and get this 
> back in action. If Dan is too busy to deal with it now, maybe there 
> could be a better way of writing the draft. Rather than having one 
> person in charge of the drafting, it could be a password protected 
> Wiki type thing, where we all have access to change it, once we agree 
> to changes. I think we can assume that no one here would go and add 
> their own ideas without discussion (otherwise, why bother joining at 
> all?), so that seems like a safe route to go.
>
> Perhaps we can also try to get more clients/irc related people 
> involved. The more people involved, the better ideas we'll get going 
> around. I wonder if the reason none of the "major" clients (mIRC, 
> BitchX, irssi, epic) joined isn't so much that they don't care, but 
> more so that they've never even heard of DCC2...
>
> -- codemastr
>
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