POE::Component::IRC::Plugin::CoreList - A POE::Component::IRC plugin that provides Module::CoreList goodness.

  use strict;
  use warnings;
  use POE qw(Component::IRC Component::IRC::Plugin::CoreList);

  my $nickname = 'Core' . $$;
  my $ircname = 'CoreList Bot';
  my $ircserver = 'irc.bleh.net';
  my $port = 6667;
  my $channel = '#IRC.pm';

  my $irc = POE::Component::IRC->spawn(
        nick => $nickname,
        server => $ircserver,
        port => $port,
        ircname => $ircname,
        debug => 0,
        plugin_debug => 1,
        options => { trace => 0 },
  ) or die "Oh noooo! $!";

  POE::Session->create(
        package_states => [
                'main' => [ qw(_start irc_001) ],
        ],
  );

  $poe_kernel->run();
  exit 0;

  sub _start {
    # Create and load our CoreList plugin
    $irc->plugin_add( 'CoreList' =>
        POE::Component::IRC::Plugin::CoreList->new( command => 'core' ) );

    $irc->yield( register => 'all' );
    $irc->yield( connect => { } );
    undef;
  }

  sub irc_001 {
    $irc->yield( join => $channel );
    undef;
  }

POE::Component::IRC::Plugin::CoreList is a port of Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::Module::CoreList to the POE::Component::IRC plugin framework. It is a frontend to the excellent Module::CoreList module which will let you know what modules shipped with which versions of perl, over IRC.

new

Creates a new plugin object. Takes some optional parameter:

  'command', define a command that will proceed subcommands;
  'privmsg', set to a true value to specify that the bot should reply with PRIVMSG instead of 
	     NOTICE to privmsgs that it receives.

The bot replies to requests in the following form:

    <optional_command> <subcommand> [args]

The bot understand the following subcommands:

* release

* date

    < you> bot: release Test::More
    < bot> you: Test::More was first released with perl 5.7.3 (patchlevel perl/15039, released on 2002-03-05)

If no command is given, release is the default.

    < you> bot: Test::More
    < bot> you: Test::More was first released with perl 5.7.3 (patchlevel perl/15039, released on 2002-03-05)

* search

* find

    < you> bot search Data
    < bot> Found Data::Dumper, Module::Build::ConfigData

Perl version numbers can be passed as optional parameters to restrict the search:

    < you> bot: search Data 5.006
    < bot> Found Data::Dumper in perl 5.006

The search never returns more than 9 replies, to avoid flooding the channel:

    < you> bot: find e
    < bot> Found AnyDBM_File, AutoLoader, B::Assembler, B::Bytecode, B::Debug, B::Deparse, B::Disassembler, B::Showlex, B::Terse, ... 

Chris BinGOs Williams <chris@bingosnet.co.uk>

Philippe "BooK" Bruhat, <book@cpan.org>

Copyright © Chris Williams and Philippe Bruhat.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

POE::Component::IRC

Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::Module::CoreList