Hey,
I have been thinking of retiring xchat from Fedora, and let hexchat
take over as its natural replacement. Historically, xchat has been quite
popular, so I thought I'd mention it here before removing it from the
distribution.
XChat is dead [1] and the last upstream release was seven years ago
[2]. On the other hand, HexChat [3] has been a part of Fedora for the
last four years, upstream [4] (CCed) is involved in both the Fedora
and GNOME communties, and I learnt that the MATE spin already ships it
by default.
What do you think?
Cheers,
Rishi
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XChat
[2]
http://xchat.org/
[3]
https://hexchat.github.io/
[4]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tingping