Exciting news for infobot-lovers everywhere:
We’ve just released flooterbuck v1.2, which is the first
release in Quite Some Time. No more of this “Don’t get the release, get
a CVS checkout”, no sirree — 1.2 is the first release of a Release Early, Release Often strategy that will hopefully last longer than one release.
A list of changes in 1.2 is available. Note that there is a
good chance you missed 1.1 if you only watched the webpage and not the files
area on Sourceforge, since both Dagbrown and I missed it, and we’re
two of the three people actively working on the project — so be sure to note the 1.1
part of the changelog too.
For those just tuning in, flooterbuck is an
Lenzo’s original, which is explicitly not a huge rewrite project
– just a matter of fixing bugs and trimming bits here and there and
refactoring when a block of code becomes sufficiently offensive that
there is no other way. The goal is a fun bot to play with while avoiding
second-system effect and vaporware.
Halfjack, Fimmtiu — don’t suppose you’d
be interested in basing pea on floot? If, y’know, you’re bored. The more
testbots I use regularly, the merrier, and since part of the idea of floot
here is “make adding functionality straightforward”, it’ll be easy
to keep pea-specific bits pea-specific.
Comments 7
pea’s functionality is substantially supported by evil internal hacks and the occasional reliance on hysterical features, so I’m not sure she’s a good candidate for porting to a new piece of software.
Posted 12 Mar 2004 at 3:24 am ¶Also, the name “flooterbuck” needs some careful reconsideration. :)
Posted 12 Mar 2004 at 3:25 am ¶I probably underestimated the level of evil involved. :-) Floot does get rid of the whole “Extras” garbage, though.
Posted 12 Mar 2004 at 3:27 am ¶Yeah we have modifications all through the core code. Extras.pl is the lest of its issues. :) We have embraced the core design’s extremely tight coupling and created a monster.
A monster that works, mind you!
Posted 12 Mar 2004 at 7:46 am ¶Flooterbuck is a very strange name. Anyway, while pea is maintained by hj and fimm, she’s my bot, and I don’t really want to do anything to fuck her up. She’s got so many hacks and weird shit in her already, I don’t know how well one would be able to migrate those without a shitload of work on the guys’ part.
Posted 12 Mar 2004 at 8:14 am ¶Or we could say HEY MENDEL WHY ISN’T X WORKING every time something pestery happened. =)
Posted 12 Mar 2004 at 8:15 am ¶Yeah, funny, the guys running purl said that too. Blah, blah, vast local changes, yadda yadda, THEINK ABOUT THE CULTURE, blah, blah.
purl’s a Flooterbuck now.
Posted 02 Nov 2006 at 5:17 pm ¶