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Xchat miniupnpc patch updated for Hexchat

 
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 10, 2020 9:45 am    Post subject: Xchat miniupnpc patch updated for Hexchat Reply with quote

I updated your Xchat patch to work on Hexchat 2.14.2. I successfully used it to receive a file sent by a bot over DCC. Hexchat is a forked, maintained, UTF-8-based descendant of Xchat.

I used the default Arch package for miniupnpc, 2.1.20191224. (I thought there was a newer version, but I was wrong.) Updating the patch from autoconf to Meson/Ninja was a trip.

I'd like to eventually push the code to the Hexchat devs, which will involve conditional compiling, which will need changes to Meson and to upnp.h, so that absent code is not run. Is that okay?

Thanks for the program!
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 20, 2020 1:37 pm    Post subject: Re: Xchat miniupnpc patch updated for Hexchat Reply with quote

somercet wrote:
I updated your Xchat patch to work on Hexchat 2.14.2. I successfully used it to receive a file sent by a bot over DCC. Hexchat is a forked, maintained, UTF-8-based descendant of Xchat.

I used the default Arch package for miniupnpc, 2.1.20191224. (I thought there was a newer version, but I was wrong.) Updating the patch from autoconf to Meson/Ninja was a trip.

I'd like to eventually push the code to the Hexchat devs, which will involve conditional compiling, which will need changes to Meson and to upnp.h, so that absent code is not run. Is that okay?

Thanks for the program!

yes, it will be great for hexchat to have built in UPnP support !
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2022 3:52 pm    Post subject: Hexchat and miniupnpc Reply with quote

Hope you don't mind pastebin:

https://pastebin.com/TwZpkurz

https://github.com/somercet/hexchat/tree/miniupnpc

The meson changes allow Hexchat (2.16) to build with miniupnpc if it is present. I have not tested it a lot, but it seems to work.

One possible issue: a number of the miniupnpc functions changed since the original patch. One such change is the scope_id variable. I set it to one, which seems to be a decent default. But I am not on an IPv6 ISP to test it. Was I correct?

One question I have is, should Hexchat test if it is on a NAT IP address? (I.e., 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, 192.168.0.0/16, or fd00::/8, not to mention the link-local addresses 169.254.0.0/16 and fe80::/10.) Or does miniupnpc do it?

Sadly, the Hexchat devs seem content to let IRC die. They are also unwilling to upgrade Hexchat to GTK3. Admittedly, this seems to be a huge chore, as several widgets in HC are built in raw GDK, using functions no longer available in GTK3.

A large portion of the user base seems pretty down on any change as well. I mentioned getting UPnP to work in HC, and my hopes that it would one day be ported to GTK3, and someone said, "if it gets updated, I will stop using it."

Ouch. In a world of corporate tech giant censorship, this seems unwise. I am considering updating it myself.

Anyway, thanks for listening!

-p
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PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2022 8:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hexchat patch now available here : https://miniupnp.tuxfamily.org/xchat-upnp.html
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