Moving to Windows

So the hard drive on my machine blew up and I had to change to an adjacent workstation which runs Windows XP. Thanks to Nick Jamil and his guide the transition was relatively smoothless. The daemon and bot were installed OK too, so something good came from this – I inadvertently confirmed that both can run on Windows. There was one small problem with Eclipse though. Not sure if it’s because of the new SP3, but Eclipse randomly closed with EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION whenever I tried to check something out. I tried the workaround proposed here and that solved the problem. If you experience this  with subclipse, just change SVN interface to SVNKit from JavaHL.

IRC daemon, bot installation and configuration

See: https://www.drproject.org/DrProject/wiki/DrProjectChat

Choosing IRC daemon and Python bot

Last day I spent mostly looking around for a cross-platform and a community supported IRC daemon that will be used for this project. After some research, I decided to go with InspIRCd. It seems to have decent documentation, and should fit our needs for IRC daemon.

As for the bot, we decided to go with Supybot. It’s written in Python and seems to be easy to extend by writing custom plugins (in Python of course). It already comes with several useful plugins, in particular the RSS feed and chat logger.