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Re:Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down by airstrike on Thursday April 16, 2020 @03:58PM (#22892877)
If only I could build weechat from source on windows! If anyone out there is willing to provide binaries I'd be glad to buy you coffee so I can switch over from irssi

mIRC is what got me into programming, actually... I miss the good old days

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Re:Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down by Geeflow on Thursday April 16, 2020 @05:50PM (#22893924)
My first programming projects were scripts and modules for eggdrop. Every now and then I get a nostalgia flash. :) Surprisingly, some of those are still being used... 20 years after the last release.
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Re:Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down by hkt on Thursday April 16, 2020 @06:46PM (#22894356)
Mine were mIRC scripts for banning spammers. Eventually we had a community of people writing bots in perl, PHP, and loads of other languages. I was introduced to Unix by means of wanting to run irssi in screen so I could collect messages even when I was offkyine. It is no exaggeration to say IRC is completely responsible for my career, far more so than education!
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Re:Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down by rasengan on Thursday April 16, 2020 @04:02PM (#22892907)
Another option is to try cygwin [1] as it has a weechat build [2]. Weechat also runs under WSL [3].

[1] https://cygwin.com/

[2] https://www.cygwin.com/packages/summary/weechat.html

[3] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

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Re:Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down by graton on Thursday April 16, 2020 @06:54PM (#22894403)
Seems like you can run it under Windows Subsystem for Linux.
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