Re: bugs found in http.e and news.ex
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Sep 13, 2012
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the other was an eubot.
You claimed it was just a bot shell. This one, I recall that you took the code down so it was no longer open source or available to the community.
It was a bot shell in the way it didn't write your spoken wishes into code.
This doesn't quite fit in the context of my recollection: you claimed your eubot had already implement certain features (I don't recall what exactly, but along the likes of having a chatbot or searching the archives for keywords and the like), and I said that this wasn't true because the one I had didn't have code for any of this.
I believe your reply was that this eubot was never released, and what I had was just the shell of it.
It was like mirc with no gui, it was like any other bot you would download and then add script packages to.
The eubot I saw had no scripting interface. It was fairly straightforward to add Eu code in key locations in obviously named files (like on_msg.e to handle messages from users) to do what you wanted, though.
It interfaced your code to irc without you needing to know anything about irc protocols. It responded correctly to the over 1000 status codes sent by the irc server. If you added "msg #euphoria blah blah", then it said "blah blah" in #euphoria.
Agreed. It was good at this.
I took it down for two reasons: 1) you downloaded it and butchered it and then announced it didn't work,
I admit that I made a mistake here. The way I attempted to inform you about the bug I had discovered, intended to be jovial, instead offended you and may even have prompted you to pull the code offline.
I was sorry to see it go.
I may have also mentioned other comments that were said about your code (scooby disapproved of your embedding raw control codes like ^A in the source, while robsz1 disliked the mirc-like way you formatted some of your control blocks), but I could have done it in a better way.
That said, I told you all this in a fairly private manner, not through some public announcement like the news section of a forum.
and 2) no one else wanted it anyhow.
eukat
I must admit that there is some truth to this. A decade back, I tried to get other Euphorians on IRC to adopt your eubot as a framework for making IRC bots, but no one else was interested.
