Failed to load the irc package

[bhaskardabhi-oviyum]

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Atom: 1.19.2 x64
Electron: 1.6.9
OS: Mac OS X 10.12.6
Thrown From: irc package 0.4.0

Stack Trace

Failed to load the irc package

At The super constructor to "inherits" must not be null or undefined

TypeError: The super constructor to "inherits" must not be null or undefined
    at Object.exports.inherits (util.js:961:11)
    at /packages/irc/node_modules/irc/lib/irc.js:575:6)
    at /packages/irc/node_modules/irc/lib/irc.js:956:3)
    at Module.get_Module._compile (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/src/native-compile-cache.js:106:36)
    at Object.value [as .js] (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/src/compile-cache.js:239:29)
    at Module.load (module.js:488:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:447:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:439:3)
    at Module.require (Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/index.js:47:45)
    at require (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/src/native-compile-cache.js:66:33)
    at /packages/irc/lib/connector.coffee:2:7)
    at /packages/irc/lib/connector.coffee:1:1)
    at /packages/irc/lib/connector.coffee:1:1)
    at Module.get_Module._compile (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/src/native-compile-cache.js:106:36)
    at Object.value [as .coffee] (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/src/compile-cache.js:239:29)
    at Module.load (module.js:488:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:447:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:439:3)
    at Module.require (Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/index.js:47:45)
    at require (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/src/native-compile-cache.js:66:33)
    at /packages/irc/lib/irc.coffee:5:10)
    at /packages/irc/lib/irc.coffee:1:1)
    at /packages/irc/lib/irc.coffee:1:1)
    at Module.get_Module._compile (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/src/native-compile-cache.js:106:36)
    at Object.value [as .coffee] (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/src/compile-cache.js:239:29)
    at Module.load (module.js:488:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:447:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:439:3)
    at Module.require (Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/index.js:47:45)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)

Commands

Non-Core Packages

atom-asana 0.0.0 
atom-autocomplete-php 0.25.6 
atom-beautify 0.30.5 
atom-laravel-log 0.0.0 
atom-ternjs 0.18.3 
atom-translator 0.2.1 
data-atom 0.25.2 
emmet 2.4.3 
git-time-machine 1.5.9 
gpp-compiler 3.0.7 
highlight-selected 0.13.1 
irc 0.4.0 
merge-conflicts 1.4.5 
minimap-highlight-selected 4.6.1 
php-cs-fixer 4.1.0 
phpfmt 1.0.0 
RebelChat 0.8.1 
termination 0.6.0 

[HebaruSan]

This appears to be a problem in the node-irc dependency. I submitted a fix here:
martynsmith/node-irc#521

[Throne3d]

It doesn't look like the node-irc package is being updated or responding to pull requests / issues, which prompted me to create a fork, "irc-upd" (it can be found on GitHub here and on NPM here). I've been adding a bunch of tests, fixing some of the more major bugs, and trying to keep the development more active. (I created the fork mostly to improve the stability of a project that used node-irc as a dependency, discord-irc, but it looks like there might be some independent interest.)

I'm not sure if there would be inclination to swap, but I've added a commit which should fix this here. A new version hasn't been released yet, so it won't work if you just point at the library, and it's also under a different name, so references to irc would have to be updated, but if you use the commit hash and do that you might be able to get it working in the meantime.

(Edit: I released v0.8.0 yesterday, which includes this fix.)