Thales
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This file documents the GNU Thales IRC gateway.

Copyright © 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''.

How it all began
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GNU Thales originally was written by Lucas Nussbaum in 2002 - 2004 years. It provided ability to collect statistics about IRC activity to MySQL database. However, it directly dealed with IRC server differencies and did not used GNUlib, so it's code was not too elegant and it was possible to choose only one target server, and only on compilation stage, that created problems for distribution. Also, it provided close to no documentation. It was not maintained since 2004. This version is still accessible on CVS project repository.

This manual describes rewrite from scratch of GNU Thales. Development occurs in git repository on Savannah. New version intends to cover previous functionality in clean code via use on GNUlib and libircclient, and also provide direct access to database via specially structured irc messages. If you think you found bug in program or in this manual, please inform about it via mailing list thales-misc@gnu.org

Invoking GNU Thales
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