Hi all, Me and FRIGN started working on a simple FIFO based tox client called ratox[0]. I started working on it initially because of my frustration trying to get toxic/uTox to build and run properly under OpenBSD.
For those not familiar with tox, have a look at https://tox.im/. I made an initial release today. The client supports file transfers, 1-1 chatting, encrypted data files, IPv6, TCP socks5 proxy support, offline messaging, offline transfers (yes really!) and UTF-8. Some features were simply a convenient consequence of the FIFO design. We aim to have audio support via toxav in 0.2. The idea is that you can have an external program like arecord/aplay or aucat to pipe an input audio stream into the `call_in' FIFO. Similarly you can pipe out of the `call_out' FIFO and into aplay/aucat. Video support will be implemented similarly. To learn more about how to use it, have a look at the website below (courtesy of FRIGN, thanks!). The same information can be found in the README in the repo[1]. It feels quite stable at the moment and trivial to operate. External scripts can be built on top of the FIFO interface. I want to have a balance between usability and programmability. ratox can and should be easy to use without external scripts. Any feedback is highly appreciated. [0] http://ratox.2f30.org/ [1] http://git.2f30.org/ratox/
