The last release was in 2004... looks defunct, sadly.
Plus the releases are "binaries only" which means I have no way to validate personally that they do not do anything other than that which is advertised. I like to be able to do that before I tell folks they should use something, or stick my own stamp of approval on it. There are people who, for whatever whacky reason, feel my word/approval of something has some value, and I take that responsibility very seriously as an information security guy. That said, java is somewhat restricted, so I'll check it out as a possible web-based option, but I think the xchat thing is still the better choice for a few reasons.
The first problem is GTK+. It has way too many dependencies, none of which has much in the way of documentation. The second problem is xchat, which doesn't have any real build system for Windows. The documentation is incomplete. Third, I realized I was trying to stuff a Unix shaped peg into a Windows shaped hole. I spent a couple hours installing all the dependencies and getting stuff setup. Then an hour of fixing makefiles and correcting coding errors. I gave up because I saw many more hours ahead of me. I volunteered because I didn't think it was going to take up this much of my time.
