NEWS

   1 (-*- text -*-)
   2 User Visible Changes In Bobot++
   3
   4 IMPORTANT NOTES:
   5   As of version 1.98 unknown_lamer is the new maintainer.  Also as of
   6   version 1.98, you must have Guile 1.5.6+ or 1.6.x in order to
   7   compile scripting support.
   8
   9 =====================================================================
  10 ====== The News =====================================================
  11 =====================================================================
  12
  13 Version 2.1.0: Zug Zug
  14 - Hooks can now be fallthrough or non fallthrough. You can set a hooks
  15   priority and whether or not it falls through (i.e. continues hook
  16   matching after it has been executed) using two optional args to
  17   (bot-addhook). The new args are pri (integer priority) and fallthru
  18   (#t or #f) and are at the end. Higher priority hooks are executed
  19   before lower priority hooks, and fallthrough hooks are executed
  20   before non-fallthrough hooks.
  21 - The default config is read from ~/.bobotpp/config/default/ or
  22   /etc/bobotpp/default/ if the user config is not found. Put your
  23   default config is either dir. You may also specify a specific config
  24   under these dirs using the --config or -c arg to bobotpp (see
  25   bobotpp --help for the full list of commands you may use and how to
  26   use them).
  27 - Scripts are now stored in ~/.bobotpp/scripts/ or
  28   PREFIX/bobotpp/scripts/ (where PREFIX is /usr/local unless you
  29   changed it with the --prefix arg to configure). The new function
  30   bot-load will take a filename and load it from these dirs, returning
  31   #t if the file was loaded and #f if it wasn't. You can modify the
  32   search list by appending to %bot-loadpath.
  33 - bobot-utils.scm is now autoloaded, so you don't need to
  34   load it if you want to use its functions.
  35 - Logs are now in ~/.bobotpp/logs/
  36 - bot-* procedures in Scheme are now bot:*. The old bot-* functions
  37   are defined as aliases in bobot-utils.scm
  38 - You can now use lambda's for new commands (oops, I wasn't protecting
  39   the objects from garbage collection)
  40
  41
  42 Version 2.0: Stable release / CVS merges
  43 - Merged stuff from Etienne Bernard's dev tree that he was working on
  44   before I took over (not much)
  45 - bot-adduser and bot-addshit now work from Scheme
  46
  47 Version 1.99: Configure joy
  48 - You can now disable scripting using --disable-scripting or
  49   --enable-scripting=no
  50 - Crypt can also be disabled with --disable-crypt or --enable-crypt=no
  51 - Old hooks behavior has been restored (new hooks are added to the end
  52   of the hooks list and processing does not stop at the first matched
  53   hook). The hook behavior will change radically in 2.1.
  54
  55 Version 1.98: Unknown_lamer made a large number of changes
  56 - Code is now ISO C++ and compiles with GCC 3.1
  57 - Converted makefile system to use automake
  58 - configure.ac now requires autoconf 2.50 (this is only a problem if
  59   you modify it, but I should be the only one doing that)
  60 - Transition to new Guile 1.6 API has begun
  61 - Scripting must always be enabled for now (known "bug")
  62 - first hook of a given type to match is the only hook executed, all
  63   others are ignored. Note that the last hook to be registered is the
  64   first in the list!
  65
  66
  67 Version 1.97: lots of changes, especially guile's scripting support, which
  68               is not yet documented. See in the scripts/ directory for
  69               examples, and in Interp.C (the Startup() function) for the
  70               list of all available commands.
  71
  72 Version 1.30: Syntax change for "channel =" in bot.conf. See examples/bot.conf.
  73               Rewrite of ident/password system. Should be more secure and
  74               flexible.