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Catsit
Upstream information: https://git.causal.agency/catsit/about/
Linux port
Why?
I found myself wanting to migrate my Pounce-based IRC bouncers to a different machine. Previously I run them on a systemd based distribution, but as the new machine would be rc.d based, I figured I will use catsit to supervise my bouncers. I did not expect this to be an issue, as I used various other Causal Agency IRC software (pounce, calico, litterbox, catgirl) before, which always worked flawlessly, however after preparing the new Slackware box I found catsit, the only program in the suite I have not yet tried, to be BSD only. Now I am a fan of BSD based operating systems, and run many myself, but I did not want to move my IRC box again - hence found myself hammering catsit until it would run on Slackware - which turned out to take longer than several OpenBSD installations.
Dependencies
This needs …
libbsd - could likely do with native POSIX libraries
libkqueue - probably wiser to port this to libevent or libuv
libmd - I forgot why
… in addition to make and some version of
gcc (tested with 11.2.0).
Disclaimer
I recommend AGAINST using this fork. The patches are horrible, disgraceful, a shame to humanity, and heavily insulting towards the upstream developer.