Revision history Bot::BasicBot

0.87 Sat May 14 18:48:55 GMT 2011

• Make charset_decode() use IRC::Utils::decode_irc() internally
• Make utf8 the default outgoing message encoding

0.86 Fri Apr 1 20:06:08 GMT 2011

• Add noticed(), which is like said() but for notices
• Depend on POE::Component::IRC 6.56 for a notice-related fix

0.85 Fri Apr 1 18:49:45 GMT 2011

• Document the 'no_run' attribute and add a getter/setter for it
• Added a pocoirc() method which returns the underlying pocoirc object
• Switched the backend from POE::Component::IRC to P::C::I::State
• Print a warning and shut down if our session gets an exception
• Document the channel_data() method
• Depend on POE::Component::IRC 6.55 for a NAMES-related bugfix

0.84 Mon Nov 15 20:05:09 GMT 2010

• Ignore empty strings returned by said()
• Adjust the method documentation a bit to avoid confusion
• Added the notice() method to send IRC notices. Useful when implementing bots.

0.83 Fri Nov 5 12:40:00 CET 2010

• Applied patch from Mario Domgörgen to use log() for warnings (RT #51804)
• Only ignore said() when it returns undef/empty list, not false
• got_names was never getting called. Fixed that.
• Skip connect.t for now. I should rewrite it to use poco-server-irc...

0.82 Wed Nov 3 02:09:36 GMT 2010

• Maintainership moved from cpan:TOMI to cpan:HINRIK
• Use POE::Component::IRC's Connector plugin to handle reconnects. This fixes the endless reconnect loop when trying to shut down the bot
• Kill subprocesses (e.g. those created by forkit()) on shutdown
• Migrate distribution to Dist::Zilla
• Eliminate bogus "NAMES HASH(0x1234567)" queries the bot was making after joining a channel

0.81 2009/01/26

• Implement remove_from_all_channels, you idiot. Sigh.

0.80 2009/01/22

• Understand quit messages - https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42625
• Fix the ->name method on the bot to actually return something sensible - https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27427
• Try to avoid zombie children on forking - https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=38010

0.70 2006/06/11

• Updates for new PoDo::IRC
• No longer do 2 server connects on startup
• the connect test doesn't break itself by faking a connection first

0.65 2005/08/11

• Added raw_nick support and a tiny amount of documentation
• Support for SSL, contributed by Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn@softwarefreedom.org>

0.61 2005/05/13

• Fix for the odd behaviour of freenode - we ask the server for the time periodically to catch servers that don't send pings.

0.60 2005/03/21

• Charset support
• use Text::Wrap to split up really long responses, instead of a nasty regexp, so we split on spaces properly.

0.50 2004/12/01 (revision 1366)

• Real (almost) tests
• Nick (and op/voice status) tracking
• Quiet some warnings

0.31 2004/03/16 (revision 643)

• Fixed 'addressing' typo, thanks Earle
• Fixed annoying errors for logging
• Fixed stupid bug where the return value of said wasn't getting said. How can I not have noticed?
• if you don't return true from init, be more helpful.
• if help doesn't return true, don't say anything
• Made SYNOPSIS clearer

0.30 2003/01/02

• Randomized name so you can run more than one at once in one POE session
• Log a lot less.
• Be more aggressive about reconnecting to the server
• Put reconnect stand-offs into a lot more places, so we get less confused.
• Made reconnect timeout changable
• Added a NINJA

Changes to 0.25 (released 31st August 2003) not available.