Hi,

I'm the author of POE::Component::Server::IRC, no please don't hit me >:o)

I'll give a little bit of background. I started coding POE::Component::Server::IRC nearly two years ago now, mainly after I realised that POE::Component::IRC::Service just wasn't going to do what I wanted it to do. The first fruits of that labour were version 0.3 which is on CPAN.

This version is okay, but it has a number of problems with it, mainly that it is a monolithic monster that doesn't lend itself to being extended, there was no server-to-server protocol support and it didn't have 'hooks' so one could write services.

So I released what I had as there was some interest in the POE community in what I had been working on.

Time passed, I had other stuff to do, mainly working on POE::Component::IRC.

I went back to the drawing board and redesigned POE::Component::Server::IRC from the ground-up. It's modular, extensible, has server-to-server protocol support (TSora5), hooks for writing IRC services and supports a plugin system that looks surprisingly like POE::Component::IRC's >:o)

The upshot of all this rambling is that version 0.99 of POE::Component::Server::IRC will be hitting CPAN in the next week or so (I am currently finishing off writing the documentation and testing against a four hybrid ircd network).

In the meantime if you want, you can harass me either via my listed CPAN email contact address or via IRC: I am on Quakenet, EFNet, Freenode and MAGnet.

CB <-> IRC has been much mooted and incidently was one of reasons I started the POE::Component::Server::IRC rewrite, after someone pointed out how shit version 0.3 was for doing this kind of thing.

Watch this space

BinGOs
"If it isn't broke, you haven't hit it hard enough"