[MacPorts] #34433: Add port Colloquy (IRC client for OS X)

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#34433: Add port Colloquy (IRC client for OS X)
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  Reporter:  Sam.Halliday@…  |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
      Type:  request         |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal          |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports           |    Version:  2.0.4
Resolution:                  |   Keywords:
      Port:  Colloquy        |
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Comment (by zach@…):

 Hi, I'm Zach. I'm one of the main developers of Colloquy. Someone just
 filed a ticket on our trac asking me to look here.

 To Sam's original point of Growl, Colloquy links against a version of the
 Growl framework, but, that will not stop it from using a newer version if
 it is present on the system (since the Growl folks are kind enough to keep
 API compatibility here). Same goes for F-Script.

 As far as the rest of the frameworks that Colloquy uses are concerned… the
 SILC framework we use doesn't appear to be in MacPorts, nor is Acid (our
 Jabber framework) or AGRegex or, well, any of the dependencies of
 Colloquy. Some of them aren't even available in forms that work well as
 libraries (AsyncSocket, and our SASL code, for example).

 Plus, Colloquy is built as a pretty standard Mac app. It assumes that most
 (aside from Growl and F-Script) non-system frameworks will be shipped
 within the app bundle. I'm not sure what the benefit of changing this is.

 Bottom line (as far as I can see) is that it seems like there would be a
 ton of work involved in making this happen for very little gain. Its not
 like Colloquy is hard to download, or keep up to date.

 I'm in #colloquy on Freenode if you have any other questions.

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