Saturday, November 27, 2021

Re: [new] net/pounce: multi-client TLS-only IRC bouncer

On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 04:22:18PM +0100, Omar Polo wrote:
> please find attached a tarball for pounce:
>
> % pkg_info pounce
> Information for inst:pounce-3.0
>
> Comment:
> multi-client, TLS-only IRC bouncer
>
> Description:
> pounce is a multi-client, TLS-only IRC bouncer. It maintains a
> persistent connection to an IRC server, acting as a proxy and buffer
> for a number of clients. When a client connects, any messages
> received since it last disconnected will be relayed to it. Unlike
> some other bouncers, pounce uses a single buffer for all IRC messages,
> which acts as a queue from which each client reads messages
> independently.
>
> Maintainer: Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com>
>
> WWW: https://git.causal.agency/pounce/about/
>
>
> It's from the same authors as net/catgirl and works in a similar way.
> I'm using it on a i386 box and works like a charm, it was way easier to
> wrap my head around it than with znc.
>
> OK/comments/feedbacks?

OK kn

You could build and install the extra/ tools via post-build and
post-install. Would be even nicer if upstream provided an extra target
or so building these, so you'd eventually have to just set
ALL_TARGET='all extra' or so in our port to ship them.

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