Does not follow IRC spec

[danopia]

I was using Yaaic with a custom server, planning my port of Yaaic to a different chat system, but in the meantime I figured I'd point out some issues and wonder how you'd handle them....

My custom server follows the spec rather strictly, and only places : before messages if it's needed (if the message has a space in it or starts with a :). This is because of how the sending code works... but your version of pirc is hardcoded to parse up to the " :". This is invalid and results in the whole packet being printed in the chat log when a message param isn't prefixed.

This is from pirc, not your code, so I was hesitant to submit a patch. Is there a new version of pirc or something, or how is this handled with bundled packages?

[pocmo]

Oh that's interessting. Especially I'd like to know if this broke during the development or if this is actually broken in PircBot too.

PircBot is not really maintained but in a usable state: http://www.jibble.org/pircbot.php

We currently use a patched version of PircBot to use SSL and some custom callbacks. If this is a general bug in the library I think Paul would like to know too ;)

I think in the long run there will be more refactorings done on the bundled version of PircBot until it's some kind of customized library layer for Yaaic.

[mmx900]

PircBot is still not maintained, but there is an alternative option named PircBotX. I am not sure if this can be a solution for danopia's issue but It can be considerable library for Yaaic because PircBotX is being actively developed.

http://code.google.com/p/pircbotx/

[pocmo]

Thanks for the hint. Maybe PircBotX is really something we should consider using.