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This will result in smaller and cleaner tarballs for distributions to use.
Additionally it is a logical step towards moving fully to the Meson build system.
While the last release provided two tarballs (one generated with
Autotools and one with Meson), the next release will only provide a
Meson-generated tarball.
These attributes are respected by `git archive` and `meson dist` which
means they will take effect for the Meson generated tarballs and the
GitHub autogenerated tarballs as well.
As a consequence of switching to `meson dist`, pre-generated files like
`configure` will no longer be included in the tarballs. Users and
distributions that still wish to use the Autotools build system from
these tarballs will now need to run `./bootstrap.sh` or `autoreconf -fi`
themselves, which requires automake, autoconf, and libtool to be
installed.
Since many distributions are slowly dropping the usage of vendor
generated tarballs and are moving to checking out git tags this should
not be a problem.
Arch Linux is for example doing
`source=("git+https://github.com/user/project.git#tag=v1.2.3")` and
Debian has the `git-buildpackage` too. So both of them require require
autoreconf already.
Autotools support might be removed entirely in a future
release since I find them much easier to edit and maintain.
Profanity
Profanity is a console based XMPP client inspired by Irssi.
If you like Profanity consider becoming a sponsor or donate some money.
See the User Guide for information on installing and using Profanity.
Project
This project is about freedom, privacy and choice. We want to enable people to chat with one another in a safe way. Thus supporting encryption (OTR, PGP, OMEMO, OX) and being decentralized, meaning everyone can run their own server. We believe XMPP is a great proven protocol with an excellent community serving this purpose well.
Feel free to follow us on twitter, join our mailing list and/or MUC.
Installation
Our user guide contains an install section and a section for building from source yourself.
Donations
We would highly appreciate if you support us via GitHub Sponsors. Especially if you make feature requests or need help using Profanity. Sponsoring enables us to spend time on Profanity.
An alternative way to support us would be to ask for our IBAN or use Bitcoin: bc1qx265eat7hfasqkqmk9qf38delydnrnuvzhzy0x.
Thank you! <3
How to contribute
We tried to sum things up on our helpout page. Additionally you can check out our blog where we have articles like: How to get a backtrace and Contributing a Patch via GitHub. For more technical details check out our CONTRIBUTING.md file.
Getting help
To get help, first read our User Guide then check out the FAQ. If you have are having a problem then first search the issue tracker. If you don't find anything there either come to our MUC or create a new issue depending on what your problem is.
Links
Website
URL: https://profanity-im.github.io
Repo: https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity-im.github.io
Blog
URL: https://profanity-im.github.io/blog
Repo: https://github.com/profanity-im/blog
Mailinglist
Mailing List: https://lists.posteo.de/listinfo/profanity
Chatroom
MUC: profanity@rooms.dismail.de
Plugins
Plugins repository: https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity-plugins