[Haskell-cafe] ANN: EsotericBot 0.0.1

[Gwern Branwen]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:36 AM,  <spoon at killersmurf.com> wrote:
> Hackage:
> http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/esotericbot
>
> See the homepage for online copy of README and example configuration
> file:
> http://www.killersmurf.com/projects/esotericbot
>
> Esotericbot is a sophisticated, lightweight IRC bot, written in Haskell.
>
> Esotericbot launches sub-processes to respond to commands issued by
> users over IRC.
>
> Why would you use esotericbot?
>
> For lambdabot-4.2.2.1:
>
> spoon at utensil:~/esotericbot$ ps e v
>  PID TTY      STAT   TIME  MAJFL   TRS   DRS   RSS %MEM COMMAND
> 23433 pts/3    Sl+    0:00      0  8228 84855 33476  1.6 lambdabot
> 15040 pts/5    S+     0:00      0  2171 28804  3292  0.1 ./esotericbot
>
> I'm not insinuating that lambdabot sucks in any way, ( for lambdabot is
> most excellent ) however, my hope is that esotericbot could attain equal
> functionality through plugins, whilst maintaining its small memory footprint.
>
> Esotericbot is small, designed to run on a server with
> limited memory - typically running at under 5mb of private memory.
> Features:
>
> * Advanced memory and time management options, utilizing POSIX resource
> management.
> For example, the memory used by all child processes, can be limited -
> commands be queued until the memory usage has dropped.
>
> * Privileged channel operator commands ( Currently, can be disabled and
> enabled by channel operators, without kicking. )
>
> * Easy to add new plugins.  A C library is included to make writing new
> plugins/adapting programs in C easy.
>
> * Set up through a configuration file.
>
> * Multiple channels.
>
> * Multi-threaded
>
> * Lightweight, typically running at under 5mb of private memory.
>
> Cons:
>
> * POSIX memory management, process forking, and chroot means that
> Esotericbot is POSIX only.
>
> * Esotericbot is, due to the libraries and extensions used, restricted
> to being compiled by the Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compiler.

Hm, no 'quotes' or Haskell evaluation functionality? I guess this
isn't a lambdabot killer yet!

-- 
gwern