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