I'm still interested in an IRC (or jabber) bot based on the twisted framework. I dont want to mess with an existing code base because of how bad a programmer I am (hence the desire for plug-in functionality) A common way seems to have plugins respond to IRC events via handlers. How to do this? /me shrugs The one i'm using now is pybot.sourceforge.net -M

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 10:30:18PM -0500, Maniac - wrote:

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Dont really know where to broach this but:

I've been looking at the code for pynfo and there's some functionality i'd like to wedge in there i.e. logging to a database (for example) but i'd like to be able to do it without affecting the main code. Is there a reasonable way to create an external plugin that could be inserted at runtime?

(I don't know if you've already figured this out or not; I'm posting anyway on the off-chance you haven't and are still interested in using the code-base, or someone else has taken an interest in the topic)

I'm a little ashamed to say that Pynfo is a big, stinky hack. There's no kind of modularity, and only a half-hearted attempt at any kind of "plugin" interface. The freshmeat (non-functional) and google capabilities would be the best example of how to go about this, but they're not done in such a way as to allow you to not affect the main code with your desired additions.

Perhaps a good course of action would be for you to just hack what you want into the main code and send me a patch, then I can try to refactor both of our "plugins" into something that resembles an actual plugin interface.

Jp

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