From: Bob Hutchison Date: 2008-01-02T03:32:12+09:00 Subject: Re: ANN: Butler 1.9 released On 1-Jan-08, at 12:28 PM, Stefan Rusterholz wrote: > Bob Hutchison wrote: >> Anyway, after reading these these I can begin to appreciate what >> you've done. So... >> >> Sounds like a fun and useful project. What kind of things are you >> doing with it? >> >> Cheers, >> Bob > > Hey, thanks for the links and the compliment! I completly forgot about > including some information about IRC itself :) > I originally wrote butler out of need for a bot with good > multilingualization and a plugin API that didn't require you to write > basic functionality yourself. > For the future I intend to use the bot as a support tool in IRC > channels > for my projects. Things like statistics, canned replies, > announcements, > FAQ & knowledge bases and whatever you can think of :) Okay, that's obviously handy. > > IRC itself is very nice as a direct support medium. You can discuss > stuff without the delay mails and forums have (though of course they > are > useful too, especially if you can't manage to be online at the same > time > with your talk partner or to reach a broader audience). IRC is circa 1988. My start in sofware is circa 1977. I live email and usenet :-) Why do you prefer IRC over the various alternatives, and I'm thinking of jabber/xmpp here? I see, from some quick googling, that there's plenty of partisanship. I understand what you are doing, and the alternatives will say they can do the same thing. So I'm interested in what *you* think and why -- you've actually invested in your decision so, to me, that is more than enough to make your opinion interesting. Cheers, Bob > > > Regards > Stefan > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > ---- Bob Hutchison -- tumblelog at http://www.recursive.ca/so/ Recursive Design Inc. -- weblog at http://www.recursive.ca/hutch http://www.recursive.ca/ -- works on http://www.raconteur.info/cms-for-static-content/home/