Re: perl-fu and bot frameworks (was: Re: Knab

[Rocco C. <rc...@po...>]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 05:29:20PM -0500, Corwin Brust wrote:
> Rocco Caputo wrote:
> 
> > http://android18.slim.summitmedia.co.uk/perl-fu2.html
> >
> The canonical location for perl-fu is http://perlfu.jinzougen.org

That's not what google says! :)

> The new 3.x version of perl-fu is totally plugin driven, including the 
> factiod engine.  FWIW, I'd love to see a version of Infobot which was 
> plugin compatible with perl-fu.  Not sure if that could be in the cards, 
> but I'd love to see it.  The (extra) complication is that perl-fu isn't 
> tied to P::C::I; it abstracts messages there from into a generic message 
> class instances of which are what plugins' event handlers actually 
> receive.  I'd be happy to mess with the perl-fu guts in order to support 
> an generic plugin mechanism, but I wouldn't want to loose the ability to 
> have the same Plugin respond to messages regardless of originating service.

My experimental workbench bot uses abstract messages, so I understand
their benefit.  Perl-fu 3 sounds dreamy in that regard, and I'm
looking forward to kicking its tires.

You should definitely catch BinGOs and bend his ear about plugins and
messages before he releases something.

-- 
Rocco Caputo - http://poe.perl.org/