-You will need to have Jason Coombs's irc library where Python can see
-it. See <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/irc/>; use version 3.0, not the
-older code from SourceForge.
-
-For higher performance, also install the eventlet library from
-<http://pypi.python.org/pypi/eventlet/>. This merges in a cooperative
-threading implementation that is faster and has much lower space
-overhead than system threads, making irkerd more resistant to
-potential DoS attacks.
+Some irclib versions after 5.0 may produce problems if you try to ship
+non-ASCII Unicode through them; this is not an irker bug, and should be
+kicked upstream to the irclib maintainer.