outline of future autopilot development

aims

• Information and automation
• minute-to-minute management of the game
• provide admin / website with information
• bridge to irc / irc bot
• modular / customizable (without the need of editing ap source directly)

irc bot

rfc conform

• use irc package (0.6 or later) from tcllib (1.10 or later)
• standard eol-style: crlf (handled by irc package, however allow this to be configured as some networks are not rfc conform e.g. euirc.net)
• ping reply asap (handeld by irc package)
• join channel only after /end of MOTD received

important callbacks

• 376 /end of MOTD (code to join channel in this callback)
• 332 joined channel (send /NAMES to keep internal nick list of channel)
• 353 reply from /NAMES (/NAMES response can appear multiple times depending on the number of clients in the channel, accumulate them)
• 366 /end of NAMES (process the accumulated list of channel nicks)
• MODE a mode change occured, send /NAMES to update the internal list
• NICK nickchange, send /NAMES
• QUIT a user from our channel quit, send /NAMES
• PART a user from our channel left, send /NAMES
• KICK we were kicked from the channel
• INVITE we have been invited to a channel
• PRIVMSG a channel or private message (detect private message by comparing [target] with the bot's irc nick name, do this case insensitive)