Bot::Infobot A Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable based replacement for the venerable infobot
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A Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable based replacement for the venerable infobot Bot::Infobot is a Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable based replacement for the venerable infobot. After hacking in a couple of features to dipsy, #london.pm's slightly loopy infobot I felt, well, dirty. The infobt code is horrible to the point of profane depravity. The next wednesday, burdened with a monster hangover and a thorny problem percolating through my brain I hacked up a quick Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable framework as a replacement and played with porting the various plugins I could find over to this new, shiny way of doing anythings.A few sprinkled hours later and I'd done pretty much everything and began to write a brain slurper to import the distilled wisdom of 5 odd years of ramblings.Along the way there was various bits of Yak Shaving. Some of the results of that are up on CPAN.USAGEFirst write a config file (see below for details of the format) making sure that you have a section. Then run % infobot-import < dsn > < username > < password >and sit back and watch the show. This can take anything from 5 minutes to 6 hours depending on size of the brain and the store method (Storable is fastest, then then the DBM::Deep based Deep driver and then DBI).Finally just type % infobot in the same directory and everything will just work. Probably.CONFIGThe infobot and Bot::Infobot::Config documentation have more information but, essentially you have a main namespace and then sub namespaces for the different plugins including one special Store namespace for configuring the store.You can get a list of config values for the bot on the infobot manpage but the minimum config you should have to get yourself up and running are something like nick = mybotsnick server = irc.perl.org channels = #bottest type = StorableThe format is .ini style and currently there's no way to pass in an alternative config file but there probably should be. Requirements: · Perl

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