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changeset 36:a0634dddff43
update news/2020-01-13.diet.md
author | David Demelier <markand@malikania.fr> |
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date | Thu, 14 Jan 2021 08:57:48 +0100 |
parents | a584aa4fa8f4 |
children | 4f601ea0b6cf |
files | news/2020-01-13.diet.md |
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--- a/news/2020-01-13.diet.md Wed Jan 13 22:12:21 2021 +0100 +++ b/news/2020-01-13.diet.md Thu Jan 14 08:57:48 2021 +0100 @@ -102,6 +102,9 @@ MESSAGE freenode #botwar oh hi! TOPIC freenode #botwar this is my new topic. +Error messages will be written in human format and no longer provide specific +error code either. + ### Windows support will be forwarded to second class citizen Windows isn't a platform I personally like because Microsoft is a company that @@ -118,6 +121,10 @@ C++ one. This is because I think exposed API must only be related to irccd and internal stuff must be kept as that. +Also, the documentation of the exposed C API will be provided in manual pages +only as doxygen has a poor interface. As always, manual pages will be available +online as well too. + ### Unix transport only For simplicity reasons, the only transport supported will be based on UNIX @@ -126,6 +133,12 @@ This also reduce the code complexity a lot. +### Build system + +Even though I was a lover of CMake, I'm pretty upset about the quantity of code +is required to write non trivial stuff. For this new version and since I want to +be able to provide compile time option it will use GNU make. + What will be kept ----------------- @@ -139,6 +152,22 @@ All `irccdctl` commands will be kept as-is without any modification. +Questions and answers +===================== + +Q: Why a bot in C? There are already ones! +A: Yes, but no one uses Javascript as extending language and no one supports + rules and templates like irccd. + +Q: Is it a rewrite from scratch? +A: No. Lot of code was simply converted from C++ to C by adapting some code + logic. The javascript being based on the C Duktape library did not need lots + of modifications. From scratch code is mostly: new transports, logs and irccd + main object. + +Q: Which C standard will it be written? +A: Mostly C99 with few bits from C11 like atomics and noreturn. + Estimated time of arrival =========================