The epic irc client is old and doesn't suppport SSL

[jacobwinther@…]

The current version of epic is 1.0.1 was released in Oct 2001. Much work has been done since then but it is all taged as alpha. (IMHO) The major thing missing from 1.0.1 is SSL. This has been included since 1.1.3. I am currently running 1.1.12 without problem. I think it would be benifical to either have 2 versions of epic in dports, or update epic to a slightly more recent version, possibly recommended by the epic author. I can do more research on this if required.

--patch --

--- Portfile.old	Sun Jul 20 11:02:29 2003
+++ Portfile	Sun Jul 20 11:08:56 2003
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 PortSystem 1.0
 name		epic
-version		1.0.1
+version		1.1.12
 categories	irc
 maintainers	eric@opendarwin.org
 description	The (E)nhanced (P)rogrammable (I)RC-II (C)lient
@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@
 		 code has been added to make EPIC the best ircII client \
 		 available.
 
-set subdir	epic/EPIC4-PRODUCTION/
+set subdir	epic/EPIC4-ALPHA/
 master_sites	ftp://ftp.prbh.org/pub/${subdir} \
 		ftp://ftp.magenet.com/pub/${subdir} \
 		ftp://ftp.archive.de.uu.net/pub/unix/irc/${subdir}
 
 distname	${portname}4-${portversion}
-checksums	md5 53610020128ba1edb7701a73b778f75f
+checksums	md5 eedc9a4b0c358b29d536f2a67707f4e6
 
 build.env	LOGNAME=${env(USER)}

[fkr@…]

I don't use epic myself, maybe eric (the maintainer) or waqar (he is interested in epic) can comment on this?

-fkr

[mij@…]

I talked to eric a few minutes ago, and he'd like to keep the 1.0.1 version around, but suggested a devel variant, which I'm in the process of adding.

• jim

[mij@…]

A devel variant has been committed.