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IRC users and channels are now distinguished by the separator used in the
IID (% or !).

ref #2468

ref #2521

ref #2521

fix #2541

fix #2539

For now, it tries two TLS ports and then connects to the non-tls port.  In
the future we would like the user to be able to configure that.

fix #2435

fix #2452

We have two basic example commands. But it’s not entirely finished because
there are some error checks that we don’t do.

ref #2521

fix #2469

Since the socket is now only created and managed whenever the connection is
being established, we only close the socket and if it was created (we use -1
to denote the fact that is not yet created, or has been closed) and we only
unmanage the socket if it is effectively managed.

fix #2529