...but generally it is/was text based client, so in my oppinion if you add webcamera to it, people will not use it for "text chating" and it will no longer be primary text based irc client and he always was that with features that are already added to it.
- But if the video streams go through DCC then people must first be on IRC to initiate the them. It's extremely unlikely that people would bother doing all that if they only intended to use mIRC for the video streaming capability, instead they'd use a program with that explicit purpose. Even if they did use it for that one purpose, so what? How someone else uses the client doesn't affect you.
You don't know if it will be just a few extra lines. You don't know if it will be noticeably slower or not.
You just know that it WILL be bigger, and slower...
- Why would it be slower? If the code for video streaming isn't being executed (ie. a video stream isn't occurring) then it's not slowing down anything. Unless you mean the microseconds added to the startup time. As for size, who cares? So the installer becomes an extra 5KB larger, I think people will cope with the 'bloat'.
