From: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 14:56:59 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Documentation improvements.
X-Git-Tag: 1.9~3
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?p=irker.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=83f573e597efdec1378b351ff7ccf762fb1d24ea

Documentation improvements.
---

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 13bf329..8030956 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
 			irker history 
 
+1.9 @
+  This is a stable release.
+  Proper mutex locks prevent an occasional thread crash on session timeout.
+  There's now systemd installation support for irkerd.
+
 1.8 @ 2012-10-06
   It's now possible to send to nick URLs.
-  Cope gracefully if an IRC server dies or hands during the nick handshake.
+  Cope gracefully if an IRC server dies or hangs during the nick handshake.
 
 1.7 @ 2012-10-05
   This is a stable release.
diff --git a/hacking.txt b/hacking.txt
index 0a54a31..583113f 100644
--- a/hacking.txt
+++ b/hacking.txt
@@ -62,7 +62,10 @@ filtering option.
 
 dak180 (name withheld by request) wrote the OS X launchd plist.
 
+Wulf C. Krueger <philantrop@exherbo.org> wrote the systemd 
+installation support.
+
 Other people on the freenode #irker channel (Kingpin, fpcfan,
-shadowm) smoked out bugs in irkerd before they could seriously
+shadowm, Rick) smoked out bugs in irkerd before they could seriously
 bug anybody.
 
diff --git a/irkerd b/irkerd
index 302b48a..03d0254 100755
--- a/irkerd
+++ b/irkerd
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ developers). The -V option prints the program version and exits.
 Design and code by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>. See the project
 resource page at <http://www.catb.org/~esr/irker/>.
 
-Requires Python 2.6 and the irc client library at version >= 2.0.2: see
+Requires Python 2.6 or 2.5 with the simplejson library installed, and
+the irc client library at version >= 2.0.2: see
 
 http://pypi.python.org/pypi/irc/
 """
diff --git a/irkerhook.py b/irkerhook.py
index 3c4bfc4..65f7f1c 100755
--- a/irkerhook.py
+++ b/irkerhook.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Distributed under BSD terms.
 #
 # This script contains git porcelain and porcelain byproducts.
-# Requires Python 2.6, or 2.4 with the 2.6 json library installed.
+# Requires Python 2.6, or 2.5 with the simplejson library installed.
 #
 # usage: irkerhook.py [-V] [-n] [--variable=value...] [commit_id...]
 #
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ version = "1.8"
 import os, sys, commands, socket, urllib, subprocess
 from pipes import quote as shellquote
 try:
-    import simplejson as json	# Faster, also makes us Python-2.4-compatible
+    import simplejson as json	# Faster, also makes us Python-2.5-compatible
 except ImportError:
     import json
 
diff --git a/irkerhook.xml b/irkerhook.xml
index 748a202..d097aaa 100644
--- a/irkerhook.xml
+++ b/irkerhook.xml
@@ -111,8 +111,9 @@ expanded to the value of the "repo" variable.</para>
 <varlistentry>
 <term>tinyifier</term>
 <listitem>
-<para>URL template pointing to a service for compressing URLs so they 
-will take up less space in the notification line.</para>
+<para>URL template pointing to a service for compressing URLs so they
+will take up less space in the notification line. If the value of this
+variable is "None", no compression will be attempted.</para>
 </listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 <varlistentry>