NEWS

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   2 User Visible Changes In Bobot++
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   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.
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   9 =====================================================================
  10 ====== The News =====================================================
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  12
  13 Version 2.1.5: Cleanups
  14 - A DCC CHAT with the bot may now only be initiated if the user is a
  15   Friend of the bot
  16 - Implemented bot:ctcp-quote
  17 - The Bot Configuration section of the manual has been completed.
  18
  19 Version 2.1.4: DCC Support Enhancements
  20 - Internal Change: DCCConnection is now an abstract class
  21 - Internal Change: DCCChatConnection provides the functionality of
  22   the old DCCConnection so that DCC FILE support can be added
  23 - New Scheme Procedure: (bot:sent-to-me? message), checks to see if a
  24   message was addressed to the bot. This is better than using
  25   bot:match-to-me because the hook will continue to function if the
  26   bot's nick changes. The only downside to using it is that there may
  27   be an increased overhead of calling more hooks than could be called,
  28   but that shouldn't be much of a problem.
  29 - New Scheme Procedure: (bot:change-command-level command level),
  30   changes the level a user command to allow a user of `level' level or
  31   above to run it.
  32
  33 Version 2.1.3: Something
  34 - The flood rate can now be set using !setfloodrate INTEGER. The
  35 default is two messages per second before the bot will ignore
  36 you. (thanks to Björn Gustavsson for requesting this)
  37 - The flood rate may also be set from Scheme using (bot:setfloodrate
  38 integer)
  39 - A very large crash bug has been fixed. Previously, if an undefined
  40 command was called, any attempts to call a subsequent command would
  41 cause the bot to crash. Now the bot doesn't crash.
  42
  43 Version 2.1.2: Llama
  44
  45 - match-to-me and match-not-channel are now bot:match-to-me and
  46   bot:match-not-channel. Just use perl -pi -e
  47   "s/match-to-me/bot:match-to-me" SCRIPTS (change to match-not-channel
  48   for match-not-channel).
  49 - Each script is now loaded into its own module so namespace clashes
  50   should no longer occur
  51 - New procedure: (bot:load-module INTERFACE-SPEC) will load a "bot
  52   module" with the specified INTERFACE-SPEC (e.g. (foo bar)). A bot
  53   module is the same as a system module except that you don't use
  54   define-module to define it. The %bot:loadpath is searched for
  55   INTERFACE-SPEC (when converted to a string) with an extension in
  56   %bot:load-extensions. E.g. (foo bar) becomes "foo/bar".
  57 - New procedure: (bot:use-module INTERFACE-SPEC) is the same as
  58   bot:load-module except it will make the exported bindings from
  59   INTERFACE-SPEC available in the current-module.
  60 - Updated example bot and new example scripts included with the bot.
  61
  62 Version 2.1.1: foom
  63
  64 - Host masks are now case insensitive when matched. At least one other
  65   person thought this was a good idea since IRC is case preserving but
  66   not case sensitive.
  67 - You can now "name" a hook using an extra arg to bot:addhook. This
  68   name can be used to have multiple hooks of the same type with the
  69   same regexp. The default name is "DEFAULT" so don't use that as the
  70   name for your hooks.
  71 - Logging now works again (oops, I didn't realize I broke it until I
  72   started to work on DCC).
  73 - DCC CHAT now "works." You can connect to the bot and talk to to it
  74   and use Scheme hooks to talk to the user.
  75 - New hooks: hooks/dcc/chat-begin and hooks/dcc/chat-message. These
  76   are called when a new DCC Chat begin and when the user sends a
  77   message.
  78 - New Function: bot:dcc-chat-send TO MESSAGE, sends a MESSAGE to the
  79   person at address TO
  80 - New hooks: hooks/send/... where ... is one of action, ctcp, public,
  81   or message. These are triggered when the bot does an
  82   ACTION, sends a CTCP (_not_ a ctcp-reply), sends a PRIVMSG to a
  83   channel, or sends a PRIVMSG to another user, respectively. There
  84   will be more send hooks added later.
  85 - New hooks: hooks/dcc/chat-begin and
  86   hooks/dcc/chat-message. chat-begin is called when the chat starts
  87   and has one argument: the address (in user!nick@host
  88   format). chat-message has two arguments: from (user!nick@host) and
  89   message, which is the raw message (since there is no real protocol
  90   for DCC). chat-start hooks are matched against the address and
  91   chat-message hooks are matched against the text "ADDRESS MESSAGE"
  92   where ADDRESS is the sender's address and MESSAGE is the message.
  93
  94 Version 2.1.0: Zug Zug
  95 - Hooks can now be fallthrough or non fallthrough. You can set a hooks
  96   priority and whether or not it falls through (i.e. continues hook
  97   matching after it has been executed) using two optional args to
  98   (bot-addhook). The new args are pri (integer priority) and fallthru
  99   (#t or #f) and are at the end. Higher priority hooks are executed
 100   before lower priority hooks, and fallthrough hooks are executed
 101   before non-fallthrough hooks.
 102 - The default config is read from ~/.bobotpp/config/default/ or
 103   /etc/bobotpp/default/ if the user config is not found. Put your
 104   default config in either dir. You may also specify a specific config
 105   under these dirs using the --config or -c arg to bobotpp (see
 106   bobotpp --help for the full list of commands you may use and how to
 107   use them).
 108 - Scripts are now stored in ~/.bobotpp/scripts/ or
 109   PREFIX/share/bobotpp/scripts/ (where PREFIX is /usr/local unless you
 110   changed it with the --prefix arg to configure). The new function
 111   bot-load will take a filename and load it from these dirs, returning
 112   #t if the file was loaded and #f if it wasn't. You can modify the
 113   search list by appending to %bot-loadpath.
 114 - bobot-utils.scm is now autoloaded, so you don't need to
 115   load it if you want to use its functions.
 116 - Logs are now in ~/.bobotpp/logs/
 117 - bot-* procedures in Scheme are now bot:*. The old bot-* functions
 118   are defined as aliases in bobot-utils.scm
 119 - You can now use lambda's for new commands (oops, I wasn't protecting
 120   the objects from garbage collection)
 121
 122
 123 Version 2.0: Stable release / CVS merges
 124 - Merged stuff from Etienne Bernard's dev tree that he was working on
 125   before I took over (not much)
 126 - bot-adduser and bot-addshit now work from Scheme
 127
 128 Version 1.99: Configure joy
 129 - You can now disable scripting using --disable-scripting or
 130   --enable-scripting=no
 131 - Crypt can also be disabled with --disable-crypt or --enable-crypt=no
 132 - Old hooks behavior has been restored (new hooks are added to the end
 133   of the hooks list and processing does not stop at the first matched
 134   hook). The hook behavior will change radically in 2.1.
 135
 136 Version 1.98: Unknown_lamer made a large number of changes
 137 - Code is now ISO C++ and compiles with GCC 3.1
 138 - Converted makefile system to use automake
 139 - configure.ac now requires autoconf 2.50 (this is only a problem if
 140   you modify it, but I should be the only one doing that)
 141 - Transition to new Guile 1.6 API has begun
 142 - Scripting must always be enabled for now (known "bug")
 143 - first hook of a given type to match is the only hook executed, all
 144   others are ignored. Note that the last hook to be registered is the
 145   first in the list!
 146
 147
 148 Version 1.97: lots of changes, especially guile's scripting support, which
 149               is not yet documented. See in the scripts/ directory for
 150               examples, and in Interp.C (the Startup() function) for the
 151               list of all available commands.
 152
 153 Version 1.30: Syntax change for "channel =" in bot.conf. See examples/bot.conf.
 154               Rewrite of ident/password system. Should be more secure and
 155               flexible.