[project @ 2002-11-04 23:46:59 by unknown_lamer]

[clinton/bobotpp.git] / NEWS

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User Visible Changes In Bobot++

IMPORTANT NOTES: 
  As of version 1.98 unknown_lamer is the new maintainer.  Also as of
  version 1.98, you must have Guile 1.5.6+ or 1.6.x in order to
  compile scripting support.

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====== The News =====================================================
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Version 2.1.2: Llama

- match-to-me and match-not-channel are now bot:match-to-me and
  bot:match-not-channel. Just use perl -pi -e
  "s/match-to-me/bot:match-to-me" SCRIPTS (change to match-not-channel
  for match-not-channel).

Version 2.1.1: foom

- Host masks are now case insensitive when matched. At least one other
  person thought this was a good idea since IRC is case preserving but
  not case sensitive.
- You can now "name" a hook using an extra arg to bot:addhook. This
  name can be used to have multiple hooks of the same type with the
  same regexp. The default name is "DEFAULT" so don't use that as the
  name for your hooks.
- Logging now works again (oops, I didn't realize I broke it until I
  started to work on DCC).
- DCC CHAT now "works." You can connect to the bot and talk to to it
  and use Scheme hooks to talk to the user.
- New hooks: hooks/dcc/chat-begin and hooks/dcc/chat-message. These
  are called when a new DCC Chat begin and when the user sends a
  message.
- New Function: bot:dcc-chat-send TO MESSAGE, sends a MESSAGE to the
  person at address TO
- New hooks: hooks/send/... where ... is one of action, ctcp, public,
  or message. These are triggered when the bot does an
  ACTION, sends a CTCP (_not_ a ctcp-reply), sends a PRIVMSG to a
  channel, or sends a PRIVMSG to another user, respectively. There
  will be more send hooks added later.
- New hooks: hooks/dcc/chat-begin and
  hooks/dcc/chat-message. chat-begin is called when the chat starts
  and has one argument: the address (in user!nick@host
  format). chat-message has two arguments: from (user!nick@host) and
  message, which is the raw message (since there is no real protocol
  for DCC). chat-start hooks are matched against the address and
  chat-message hooks are matched against the text "ADDRESS MESSAGE"
  where ADDRESS is the sender's address and MESSAGE is the message.

Version 2.1.0: Zug Zug
- Hooks can now be fallthrough or non fallthrough. You can set a hooks
  priority and whether or not it falls through (i.e. continues hook
  matching after it has been executed) using two optional args to
  (bot-addhook). The new args are pri (integer priority) and fallthru
  (#t or #f) and are at the end. Higher priority hooks are executed
  before lower priority hooks, and fallthrough hooks are executed
  before non-fallthrough hooks. 
- The default config is read from ~/.bobotpp/config/default/ or
  /etc/bobotpp/default/ if the user config is not found. Put your
  default config is either dir. You may also specify a specific config
  under these dirs using the --config or -c arg to bobotpp (see
  bobotpp --help for the full list of commands you may use and how to
  use them).
- Scripts are now stored in ~/.bobotpp/scripts/ or
  PREFIX/bobotpp/scripts/ (where PREFIX is /usr/local unless you
  changed it with the --prefix arg to configure). The new function
  bot-load will take a filename and load it from these dirs, returning
  #t if the file was loaded and #f if it wasn't. You can modify the
  search list by appending to %bot-loadpath.
- bobot-utils.scm is now autoloaded, so you don't need to
  load it if you want to use its functions.
- Logs are now in ~/.bobotpp/logs/
- bot-* procedures in Scheme are now bot:*. The old bot-* functions
  are defined as aliases in bobot-utils.scm
- You can now use lambda's for new commands (oops, I wasn't protecting
  the objects from garbage collection)


Version 2.0: Stable release / CVS merges
- Merged stuff from Etienne Bernard's dev tree that he was working on
  before I took over (not much)
- bot-adduser and bot-addshit now work from Scheme

Version 1.99: Configure joy
- You can now disable scripting using --disable-scripting or
  --enable-scripting=no
- Crypt can also be disabled with --disable-crypt or --enable-crypt=no
- Old hooks behavior has been restored (new hooks are added to the end
  of the hooks list and processing does not stop at the first matched
  hook). The hook behavior will change radically in 2.1.

Version 1.98: Unknown_lamer made a large number of changes
- Code is now ISO C++ and compiles with GCC 3.1
- Converted makefile system to use automake
- configure.ac now requires autoconf 2.50 (this is only a problem if
  you modify it, but I should be the only one doing that)
- Transition to new Guile 1.6 API has begun
- Scripting must always be enabled for now (known "bug")
- first hook of a given type to match is the only hook executed, all
  others are ignored. Note that the last hook to be registered is the
  first in the list!


Version 1.97: lots of changes, especially guile's scripting support, which
              is not yet documented. See in the scripts/ directory for
              examples, and in Interp.C (the Startup() function) for the
              list of all available commands.

Version 1.30: Syntax change for "channel =" in bot.conf. See examples/bot.conf.
              Rewrite of ident/password system. Should be more secure and
	      flexible.