NEWS

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