Bug#133599: ITP: alicq -- Flexible ICQ client in pure Tcl/Tk
Package: wnpp
Version: 0.5; reported 2002-02-12
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : alicq
Version : 0.5
Upstream Author : Ihar Viarheichyk <iverg@mail.ru>
* URL : http://alicq.sourceforge.net/
* License : GPL
Description : Flexible ICQ client in pure Tcl/Tk
Alicq is pure Tcl/Tk implementation of ICQ client with flexible
modularized architecture, support for ICQ2000/Oscar protocol, and
ability to pick up Licq configuration files and user database.
Why would you use it? It is small, about 1800 lines as of release 0.4.
It is modular and extendable in best tradition of the Tcl scripting
language. New modules are easy to write, and dozen lines Tcl module can
do a lot. It is crossplatfrom: works on Unix, Windows, Macintosh, and
on any other system supported by Tcl/Tk.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux pc113 2.4.13-alt1-up #1 Wed Oct 31 06:32:48 MSK 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R
P.S.
First reason why I am the best person to package Alicq for Debian is
because it's upstream author, Ihar Viarheichyk, is friend of mine, is
working in my Linux development team, and is sitting in a room down the
corridor. Second reason is that I am the longest and most loyal Debian
user here, I have experience building .deb packages for internal use,
and I have full access to the local Alicq CVS where updates appear
before they go to SourceForge.
To see why Debian will benefit from having yet another ICQ client in the
distro, just try Alicq. Almost every Linux user in our company has
already switched from Licq.
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