[OTR-dev] Command-Line OTR Proxy?

[Ian Goldberg]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 10:44:55PM -0500, Keith Beckman wrote:
> I've just installed OTR Proxy on Mac OS X 10.4.3, running on a  
> PowerBook G4 500MHz. I've noted two things that would make it a much  
> nicer program to run, in my opinion. The first is that the "quit"  
> option doesn't work correctly. Rather than killing the proxy, it sits  
> indefinitely with the file menu darkened and the proxy still running.  
> It always requires a kill to shut the program down.

Huh.  Is this a known problem?  Do other OSX people see this?

> The second is that it would be really nice to have the proxy be  
> executable as a command-line app. That way I could just launch it  
> into the background from the terminal, maybe defining an alternate  
> oscar server (since AOL has been known to change that), and perhaps  
> an alternate .otrproxyrc file (which would be a nice, tidy way to  
> house settings). It's just a thought, but I don't think it ought to  
> be too difficult to implement. I'd give it a shot, but I've never  
> actually worked with C before . . .

The proxy was written with seperate backend and UI components, for
exactly this reason.  It just needs someone with the time/ability to
plug in a text-based (ncurses?) UI.

   - Ian