From: Jesse van den Kieboom <troplosti@...>
Date: 2004-09-16T03:38:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Truly modular

Op wo 15-09-2004, om 20:22 schreef Henrik Horneber:
> > 
> > My application gets data through a TCPSocket. All the data for example
> > is prefixed by a certain command. I would like to have some sort of
> > modular support for these commands which means that I can dynamically
> > add a certain action for a new command. My guess was that this could
> > best be done by loading external files, let the files register some
> > command/actionfunction and have some sort of communication between the
> > files code and the main app code. The communication is the problem.
> > 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> This reminds me a little of rbot ( http://linuxbrit.co.uk/rbot/ ), a 
> ruby irc bot that provides a plugin framework. You can drop files 
> ('plugins') into a plugin directory, and have this plugins register 
> themselves for some commands. Then chatters use these commands when they 
> message the bot. For example, the google.rb plugin registers itself 
> under 'search', so you can ask in a channel 'rbot search what i want to 
> find' and the bot queries google. Of course you still have the IRC 
> protocol in between you and the TCPSocket, but the general layout may 
> give you some hints.
> 
> Hope that helps and was understandable ;)
> 
> Henrik

Thanks, this is just what I needed!

Jesse