#kameloso kameloso is a basic semi-asynchronous IRC bot written in the D programming language.
It was largely done as an exercise and to learn the language. It thus suffers fairly heavily from over-engineering, feature creep, and other antipatterns caused by shotgun programming. It does not completely nor correctly cover the IRC protocol, yet knows enough to do a fair job as a channel bot.
Great effort was taken to avoid the garbage collector.
Do not base your project off of this one. If you are looking for an IRC bot written in D, you would be better off using Dirk.
##Compilation
Clone the repo and build the project using dub.
git clone https://github.com/zorael/kameloso.git
dub build # optionally add --build=release or --build=debug
The built binary will be placed in the project root directory, named kameloso.
##Usage
As of yet there is no command-line help screen, but the following flags are available:
-H|--homechan: home channel, outside of which the bot will only partly react to events-h|--host: server host, defaults toirc.freenode.net(currently also:-i,--ip,-s,--server)-P|--port: server port, defaults to6667-n|--nick: nickname-I|--ident: ident-f|--fullname: full name shown in/whoisoutput-p|--password: NickServ identification password-m|--master: login of the bot owner for remote control
**Be sure to change master and home channel! Remember to escape the #channel octhorpe! **
There is currently also a hard-coded list of logins which are allowed to perform some non-essential commands via channel messages.
##TODO
- remove hard-coded stuff!
- basic terminal help screen
- support for configuration files
- implement table lookups for string-to-enum conversion (
IrcEvent.Type) - move from using
SocketStreamto directly usingSocket - move from using homebrew
Yarn!Tto using standard libraryAppender!T - figure out how to do plugins in separate threads *correctly*
- improve disconnect/reconnect logic (requires direct
Socketuse) - unit tests
- documentation
- ...basic rework of everything