invective is a chat client with a terminal interface. It is written in Python using Twisted.

Installation is not yet supported. Set PYTHONPATH and run bin/invect from the source checkout.

invective is not yet usable in practice to replace your current chat client. It supports only IRC, and only a few minimal interactions. You can give it a try using the "/server" command once invective is running, but don't expect a lot yet (another command you'll find useful is "/quit").

The purpose of invective is to replace the nasty old fashioned terminal-interface clients with badly broken networking code or bad user interfaces. Near term development will focus on building a solid networking layer and a good user interface, rather than adding support for a billion different chat networks.

invective uses xUnit-style automated testing. You can run its tests using trial:

$ trial invective

invective uses travis-ci for continuous integration. For current and recent build results, see https://travis-ci.org/exarkun/invective

Feel free to contribute features and bug fixes. Please file an issue on github describing the feature you're adding or bug you're fixing (preferably before you do the work, so there's time to discuss whether it makes sense or how to approach it), then send a pull request referencing that issue when you're ready.

Please don't submit pull requests that include untested or undocumented changes! (And I promise that soon I'll add more documentation for what's here already)