Re: [infobot] Re: infobot mailing lists

[Jonathan H. <vh...@ru...>]

> Don't be silly.  Infobot is a horrible mess.  But it's a horrible mess
> which WORKS, and it works NOW.  I'm happy to invest time and effort
> into making it less of a mess.  I'm not happy to waste time dicking
> around on some ludicrously over-engineered project which aims to be
> the be all and end all of bots but ends up with precisely 1 user (you)
> while everyone else sticks with what's far simpler to set up and
> which, let me say it again, WORKS NOW.

This is why I mentioned Knab in my first post.  It's written in perl,
not python.  It works, NOW.  It is used by hundreds of people, which is
completely unimpressive compared to most projects, but this one has
never even been officially released. This is just an indication that
it's not one fanatic sitting around talking to his own bot.  It is a
drop in replacement for infobot - it uses infobot's databases, if you
want, it has all the functionality of infobot, it even looks like an
infobot.
And, most importantly, it's NOT a horrible monolithic mess.  Which is
not to say it's perfect.  It's not.  But it's got some ideas which could
be used when you start designing the new infobot.  That's all.