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- EPIC is the (E)nhanced (P)rogrammable (I)RC-II (C)lient.
-
- EPIC4 is a new direction in ircII development. No longer is EPIC
- 100% backwards compatable with ircII, but instead we have chosen to
- find those things where compatability is undesirable, and fix them.
- No gratuitous incompatabilities have been added, but lots of new
- code has been added to make EPIC the best ircII client we could make.
-
- EPIC4 is derived directly from EPIC3, which was itself derived from
- IRC-II which is currently maintained by Matthew Green, and includes
- in whole all the additions included in the "plus" clients by Jeremy
- Nelson and all of the modifications in the "mod" clients by Jake Khuon.
- EPIC is currently maintained by EPIC Software Labs (ESL), comprised of
- Jeremy Nelson, Jake Kuhon, Robert Chady, and a cast of a dozen others.
-
- A lot of information about EPIC can be gotten at the EPIC Software Labs
- home page at <http://www.epicsol.org/>
-
- The more or less official list of sites that mirror the EPIC source code
- is at <http://www.epicsol.org/ftp.phtml>
-
- If you want to mirror EPIC on your ftp site, please visit the above URL
- and contact the Mirror List Maintainer for more details. You do not need
- specific permission to mirror EPIC, but we would like to know if you are
- mirroring, so we can put you on the list!
-
-
- WHAT EPIC IS AND IS NOT:
- -----------------------
- EPIC is completely safe: There are no hidden trap doors. We value your
- trust, and will not do anything to abuse it.
-
- EPIC is programmable: While ircII does contain a wide range of commands
- and functions, several glaring ommisions exist, which EPIC has attempted
- to fill, making the ircII language complete, precise, and efficient.
-
- EPIC supports bots: We do not agree with those who feel that script bots
- are all the evil of irc, and we feel that scripts bots must not be
- squelched by those who have the stranglehold of control on irc. EPIC will
- support bots for as long as we maintain it.
-
- EPIC is not anal retentive: EPIC allows you to do EVERYTHING that the irc
- protocol (RFC 1459) allows, and does not place any arbitrary restrictions
- upon you. EPIC *does* fully comply with the protocol as shipped and does
- not allow you to do anything that is deemed illegal by the protocol.
-
- EPIC is complete: EPIC supplies over 100 various functions and commands
- which allow you to do things very quickly that required very large or slow
- scripts in the past.
-
- EPIC uses ANSI function declarations. Most current versions of the stock
- client do have full prototyping for all functions, which has the same net
- effect as the work we have done. We, however, chose to move all our function
- headers to the ANSI style, rather than relying on K&R with function
- prototypes. We provide a function declaration in a header file for every
- extern function.
-
- EPIC is getting smaller and faster. Changes are continually underway
- to provide a faster client with more functionality while using less CPU
- cycles. While these may appear to be conflicting goals, the whole point
- of the EPIC project is to provide the best client that runs as well as
- can be managed.
-
- The EPIC mailing list is list@epicsol.org. It is run by MailMan. The list
- should be considered *low traffic*, and is used primarily for product release
- announcements and public bug reports. Everything else should be taken to
- private email.
-