![]() Anyway, it means “six” with Greek origins, and Hex is also used in programming. HexChat is pronounced and written almost identically as the predecessor, XChat, so it seemed like a good name for a new beginning. ![]() What does HexChat mean? Well, basically, nothing spectacular, it’s just a name which tries to sound good. Apparently Zed wants to keep XChat, so we had no other choice but to create a new project.īut remember, WDK stands for the Windows Driver Kit, so it doesn’t make any sense to use a Windows-specific name for a multiplatform application. We waited for the domain to expire, which was due in June, but the domain was eventually renewed. Our original goal was to merge XChat-WDK with XChat, but our previous contact person is simply lost (we haven’t heard of them since new year’s day), and our recent attempt to reach Zed has failed, too. Sometime ago I put some effort into making XChat-WDK compile on *nix so now we can say, XChat-WDK is multiplatform. Then it started to make more and more sense to support multiple platforms, not just Windows. In the meanwhile XChat-WDK evolved and instead of just fixing Windows-specific bugs it introduced new features as well. There’s only one active committer left, and he’s the maintainer of the Perl interface. It was pointless to support Linux, as it was already supported by XChat.Ī lot of things have changed since then. Back then XChat itself was alive and kickin’, so XChat-WDK was Windows-only. Why was it required? Why now? Why this name? What’s next? Let me address these. ![]() Say Goodbye to XChat-WDK, Say Hello to HexChat!Īs some of you have already noticed, we’ve changed the name. ![]()
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