Geronimo is a free Unix/Win32 Netsoul client released under the GNU General Public License. Netsoul is a protocol (developed and used at Epita-Epitech) for instant messaging and user authentication. Geronimo can run either on internal Epita-Epitech users accounts (NetBSD hosts only) or on external hosts (at home, in labs, etc).

Geronimo is portable, and has been reported to work on FreeBSD, GNU/Linux, NetBSD and OpenBSD -- Win32 is somewhat more experimental. Actually, the ``Geronimo'' package consits of a core module that implements the Netsoul protocol and of two frontends using this core:

• ``geronimo'', a client designed to be interactively used by humans, it is based on a Tk graphical user interface
• ``gerod'', a client designed to be executed on servers, it is typically run in the background as a unix daemon

$ env CVS_RSH=ssh cvs -z3 -danoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/geronimo co geronimo

There is also a CVS Web interface .

Last Release:

• Version: 0.8.0
  
• Date: Sat Mar 8 22:02:54 CET 2003
  
• Changes:
  - connection state indicated in the status bar
  - new option "kill", it creates a "kill list" in which you can put
  logins of annoying people: you won't see their messages and they
  will receive an (optional) automatic reply
  - changed the default font weight from 'bold' to 'medium': now,
  skins relying on the default font settings look much better
  - the main window should now always resizes correctly when users
  logs in/out
  - on connection failure (or disconnection), a delay before the
  next connection attempt can be specified
  - complete rewrite of Netsoul.pm to have a flexible, reliable,
  non-blocking I/O and 100% event-driven module; as a consequence
  of this rewrite the I/O latency has improved a lot !
  - protocol updates: use the *_user version of cmd msg and cmd
  watch_log
  - double click on a login to send a msg
  - new skins: psychaedelic nostalgia pure
  - some options have been added, renamed or removed (this concerns:
  proxy, server, ns_host, ns_port, reconnect_delay, mail_popup_beep,
  mail_beep, msg_popup_beep, msg_beep, log, show_away, show_idle,
  auto_away_delay, idle_delay)
  - geronimo has (at last) the possibility to send msgs to persons
  not in the contact list
  - ~/.geronimorc is now ~/.geronimo/geronimo.conf
  - skins are now in the directory ~/.geronimo/skins/
  - the installation process has been standardized (perl Makefile.PL &&
  make && make test && make install), you can now delete the source
  tarball once geronimo is installed
  - general reorganization of the perl modules to simplify the work of
  possible distributions packages maintainers
  - Digest::MD5 is now used instead of the depreciated MD5 module
  - gd does not automatically fork anymore, the user chooses himself
  to do it or not with the '&' shell operator
  - "gd" renamed to "gerod"
  - improve the robustness of gerod: once started it will never die
  - documentation updates