This project is incomplete and very far from ready for production networks, even small ones. There are gobs of critical bugs and missing features that will be cleared up for the 0.1 release, but until then, this software should not be used for anything but testing the software.

A next-generation replacement for charybdis.

There are a few reasons why it is desirable to replace charybdis:

• It does not integrate well into the rest of the atheme platform due to being a ratbox fork, i.e. we decided to follow ratbox upstream and work with them on libratbox, meaning that we have our own libmowgli and there is also this libratbox thing and there's a lot of feature overlap...

• Bitrot from changes to changes to changes to 2.8.21 code, which is not well understood in terms of side effects, etc.

• Legal issues with the ratbox/hybrid-7 origin of charybdis, including:

  • Diane Bruce's decision to strip copyrights from headers, giving us very little idea of the origin of most 2.8.21 code ("ircd contributors past and present")

  • Multiple licenses used in the code (GPLv1, GPLv2, BSD-likes), some authors no longer being alive to relicense their code to BSD-like or allowing an exception to allow openssl to be linked against it

  • Binary redistributions of charybdis linked to openssl are illegal because of the above

• Many components of mowgli (VIO, for example) were designed with the intention of replacing charybdis

The official Tethys support channel is #tethys on irc.staticbox.net.

If this source has been obtained via git, the following command should be run first:

$ git submodule update --init

You will need to run git submodule update for each successive pull. Tethys can be then compiled and installed using the typical sequence:

$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

By default, Tethys will be installed into ~/ircd, but this can be changed with the --prefix argument to ./configure.

Invoke tethys with -h to get a list of options. By default, configuration goes in etc/tethys.conf relative to the current directiory. An example configuration file can be found in doc/tethys.conf.example