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# Introduction

**irc-fun-messages** is a Haskell library providing datatypes and functions for
working with IRC messages. It's equally meant for clients and for servers.
Indeed, many IRC related libraries already exist, and this one doesn't bring
much new, especially since the IRC protocol doesn't change often.

The library aims to:

- Be thorough, provide types for all IRC message types and their components
- Be simple, try to use basic Haskell features to make it easy for beginners to
  understand and hack, while leaving the more advanced parts (such as
  asynchronous communication and message handling) to other packages
- As part of being simple, parse IRC messages using regular expressions (and
  not a full-blown parser), since the message syntax is a simple regular
  language
- Spread freedom through public domain :-)

I started this library as part of working on an IRC bot library,
[[/projects/irc-fun-bot]]. If you expect an educated excuse for why I wrote it
instead if using an existing one, you may find that there is none.

# Download

Releases are made to Hackage: [[!hackage irc-fun-messages]]. The Darcs
repository containing the source is here:
[[!darcshub fr33domlover/irc-fun-messages]].

# Documentation

See the Haddock generated pages and the source itself.

# Freedom

**irc-fun-messages** is free software, and is committed to software freedom and
to freedom in general. It is released to the public domain using the CC0 Public
Domain Dedication. See [[/freedom]].

# Bugs, Ideas, Tasks and Decisions

- [[tickets]]
- [[decisions]]