On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 04:31:06PM -0500, Jeremy Nelson wrote:
> Executive summary: I need a mandate.
As for myself, I think ruby/epic is a much more interesting and potentially
groundbreaking direction. While I do have a lot of effort invested in
my ircii-based scripts for epic4, I imagine they could be reimplemented
in ruby in about 1/8th of the code and with a much nicer design. I'm willing
to do that when the time comes.
Caveat: I rather dislike the ircii language. :)
Other factors contribute to these feelings:
* epic's descent from the age-old client of our forefathers necessitates
the existence of a lot of cruft. Most of the big problems that
crop up in epic seem to be a result of original ircii design
limitations or shortcomings.
* hop's extensive experience as the author of the best irc client
in existence puts him in a unique position to craft a new client
from scratch. He would be able to bring a great heap of practical
wisdom from epic4 to bear, which is sorely lacking in most people
who up and declare "I'm gonna write a new irc client!"
* hop's current vague object model for ruby/epic would lend itself
extremely well to some very cool features that are simply not possible
in epic as it stands. I have some ideas I'd like to explore here
myself.
* epic4 is largely whole; many of the features hop hints at for epic5
could probably be added, in time, by other contributors (possibly
with hop's casual advice?) Robohak is obviously pulling his weight
with epic4 even now.
That's my 2c. I forwarded this request along to a number of people who
use my scripts, if they have any opinions on the matter I will forward
them along for consideration as well.
Thanks for bringing us this far, Jeremy. :)
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Brian L. Naylor - scromp - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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