https://github.com/zadr/pircd

Mirror of http://pircd.sourceforge.net.
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Mirror of http://pircd.sourceforge.net.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/zadr/pircd
• Owner: zadr
• License: other
• Created: 2013-11-01T22:15:58.000Z (about 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-11-13T07:49:17.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-16T02:56:17.965Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Perl
• Size: 41 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README
  • License: LICENSE

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                                    by jay kominek ([email protected])

                                       and other people

 Yes.

 It really is an IRC daemon.

 It's written in Perl.

 ...

 You can breathe again.

 There. Very good.

*** Introduction

 pircd is an IRC daemon written in Perl. I wrote it after realizing that Perl

is the right language for IRC. IRC is chock full of various strings and other

what not, all of which is easily parsed by Perl, where the C IRC daemons jump

through all kinds of hoops and have really nasty looking code (have you ever

looked at the Undernet IRC daemon? I gave up on trying to figure out how their

extensions to the protocol work by looking at the code.) Whereas pircd is, in

my opinion, very clean. Messages from the user are dispatched to the

appropriate code via a lookup table to subroutine references, no excessively

large if..elsif..else structure, no conversion of the strings into something

that they are not (numeric values, if I remember how ircu does it).

 pircd is now reasonably complete. It lacks STATS output with any relation

to reality, and interserver communication. As of this writing, it is 3810

lines long (counting comments and everything). I do not anticipate it getting

past twice that with the addition of the remaining features. (interserver

communication being the big one.)

 If you would like to know more about how pircd operates internally, please

consult the included file, 'INTERNALS'.

*** SSL

 pircd is one of very few IRC servers which support SSL. As of this writing,

however, no clients support SSL. Hopefully, support for authentication and

such based on SSL certificates will be added.

*** Requirements

 * Perl 5.004 and later.

 * The following Perl modules:

    Fcntl, Getopt::Long, IO::Select, IO::Socket,

    POSIX, Sys::Syslog, Tie::RefHash, UNIVERSAL

    IO::Socket::SSL if you want to use SSL

     In the future, I may make use of Compress::Zlib, also

     I imagine its use will be optional.

 * A computer

 * A port that you can bind to, preferably 6667

*** About the author

 I graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in May 2002 with

a degree in Computer Science. Currently I work at the Laboratory for

Atmospheric and Space Physics as a research assistant. I write Java

stuff. :(

 An up to date list of people helping with the development of pircd can

be found at http://sourceforge.net/project/memberlist.php?group_id=671

- Jay Kominek 

  Hail Eris!