Posts Tagged ‘EPIC5’

amnesiac: a script for EPIC5 – Interview

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

After interviewing the author of EPIC5, this sort of could be called a “follow-up” interview. The interviewees are the authors of amnesiac, a modular EPIC5 script.

- First, please introduce yourself to our readers so they get an idea who you are.

skullY: I’m a long-time UNIX user and administrator who works for a Silicon Valley startup.


My day job involves hating software (mainly Linux, Apache and MySQL) and I relax in the evenings by writing software to be hated.


Most of what I write is to scratch an itch, but a few things (amnesiac, nboard) see a wider release.

crapple(Zak): I’m a long-time UNIX user/admin/programmer working at a telecommunications company in Canada.

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Interview with the author of EPIC5

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

After being 5 years and 11 days in the making, there was the first production release of the ircII fork EPIC5, now being at version 1.0, in the end of December.

For readers that don’t know the project yet, the website explains a little of EPIC’s history:

EPIC is an irc client project. The EPIC software was forked from ircII-2.8.2 in fall 1994. There have been 5 generations of EPIC, of which the newest two (EPIC4 and EPIC5) are still supported and in development.

5 years and 11 days – What caused that kind of delay?

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