Well, we finally got going on the tobe rewrite today - woo!
The results are here... fairly limited functionality, the main thing being that we've now got plugins working, so that any .pm files in the TobePlugins directory are loaded and read in so long as they have certain methods... like you can see in Template.pm.new. So anyone can now write a nice simple plugin and drop it into that directory... cool eh?
Some of the things we're aiming for in the new tobe:
- plugin stuff (almost there, will be developed as we see more need for expansion)
- generic handling of config file(s), probably in XML, because it's a Good Thing (not started at all yet, all implemented functions are not config file based)
- authentication, allowing editing of data through commands. (this is tough and not sure how to do it just yet, but we'll get there)
- use more standard methods than the old tobe, which required a specially compiled perl and irssi, which is a bit crap. Might lose some features because of this, but probably worth it in the longer run.
That's all folks!
Update: The new bot can be found on OFTC on #tobedev as [tabe] - it's beta, so lookout!
Posted by x3ja at December 13, 2002 03:50 AM