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 (0.6 or later) package from tcllib (1.10 or later)
• standard eol-style: crlf (handled by irc package)
• 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)