Comments on: Jabber bot http://richard.wallman.org.uk/2010/02/jabber-bot/ Yes, more vanity Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:06:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: richard http://richard.wallman.org.uk/2010/02/jabber-bot/comment-page-1/#comment-10 richard Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:06:05 +0000 http://richard.wallman.org.uk/?p=109#comment-10 1: I think some of my problems were due to the fact that I'd never tried connecting to a Jabber server before (with my own code, at least). One thing that does need documenting is the %bot_message_hash passed to the message_function sub - I don't remember seeing any docs for that, and it's probably of quite a lot of interest to people using N::J::Bot. :) It's just a question of (lack of) time regarding submitting patches - so much to do, so few hours in the day (and night...) 2: I only started hacking at it last night (bit of a side project). From never having looked at Jabber to getting a bot working in only a couple of hours is pretty good going. I like to do a bit of my own leg-work before asking on lists. :) 3: Yes, the direct dependency isn't really your "problem". I guess it could be covered by adding something to the docs along the lines of "If you want to connect to Google servers, you <strong>need</strong> XML::Stream 1.23 or later". There's also the bot in the examples (gtalk_RSSbot.pl) which obviously isn't going to work if the right version isn't installed - a note/dep in the sources there would clue people in as well. Thanks for creating this package - I wouldn't have been able to get a bot up so quickly and easily without it. :) 1: I think some of my problems were due to the fact that I’d never tried connecting to a Jabber server before (with my own code, at least). One thing that does need documenting is the %bot_message_hash passed to the message_function sub – I don’t remember seeing any docs for that, and it’s probably of quite a lot of interest to people using N::J::Bot. :) It’s just a question of (lack of) time regarding submitting patches – so much to do, so few hours in the day (and night…)

2: I only started hacking at it last night (bit of a side project). From never having looked at Jabber to getting a bot working in only a couple of hours is pretty good going. I like to do a bit of my own leg-work before asking on lists. :)

3: Yes, the direct dependency isn’t really your “problem”. I guess it could be covered by adding something to the docs along the lines of “If you want to connect to Google servers, you need XML::Stream 1.23 or later”. There’s also the bot in the examples (gtalk_RSSbot.pl) which obviously isn’t going to work if the right version isn’t installed – a note/dep in the sources there would clue people in as well.

Thanks for creating this package – I wouldn’t have been able to get a bot up so quickly and easily without it. :)

]]> By: todd_rinaldo http://richard.wallman.org.uk/2010/02/jabber-bot/comment-page-1/#comment-9 todd_rinaldo Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:39:47 +0000 http://richard.wallman.org.uk/?p=109#comment-9 Thanks for the post. 1. What don't you like about the docs you don't necessarily have to submit a patch if you don't want to. Open a ticket. http://code.google.com/p/perl-net-jabber-bot/issues/list 2. Questions are always welcome on the mailing list. There are a couple of successful implementations I know of that have a presence on it. http://groups.google.com/group/perl-net-jabber-bot 3. The XML::Stream thing has only been fixed a month ago. I agree that I should update my dependencies even though technically I don't directly use XML::Stream so typically this is a bug for Jabber::Bot and/or Net::XMPP, which are both owned by the XML::Stream author. I'd encourage you to submit an RT to him to fix things. http://code.google.com/p/perl-net-jabber-bot/issues/detail?id=23 Thanks for the post.

1. What don’t you like about the docs you don’t necessarily have to submit a patch if you don’t want to. Open a ticket.
http://code.google.com/p/perl-net-jabber-bot/issues/list

2. Questions are always welcome on the mailing list. There are a couple of successful implementations I know of that have a presence on it.
http://groups.google.com/group/perl-net-jabber-bot

3. The XML::Stream thing has only been fixed a month ago. I agree that I should update my dependencies even though technically I don’t directly use XML::Stream so typically this is a bug for Jabber::Bot and/or Net::XMPP, which are both owned by the XML::Stream author. I’d encourage you to submit an RT to him to fix things.

http://code.google.com/p/perl-net-jabber-bot/issues/detail?id=23

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