Re: IRC Client not Joining Channel

Instead of reinventing the wheel, you should use an existing cpan module for dealing with IRC.

Currently POE::Component::IRC is a recommended standard (though I use the simpler interface Bot::BasicBot for it), but it forces you to use the POE framework.

If you don't want that, you can use Net::IRC. I don't know if that's maintained anymore, but it's surely more stable than your IRC handling code ;-)

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Re^2: IRC Client not Joining Channel by Prof Vince (Friar) on Mar 04, 2008 at 08:42 UTC
Parse::IRC is currently the best IRC parsing module.	[reply]
Re^3: IRC Client not Joining Channel by moritz (Cardinal) on Mar 04, 2008 at 08:46 UTC
And what would you recommend for sending messages and managing connections? It seems that is a problem as well ;-)	[reply]
Re^4: IRC Client not Joining Channel by Prof Vince (Friar) on Mar 04, 2008 at 08:56 UTC
Definitely not Net::IRC, as it is known to be buggy. So cook with plain sockets yourself, use POE (which integrates well with Gtk) or even IO::Async ; but in any case you can have Parse::IRC to do the ungrateful work of parsing the messy protocol that is IRC (which is what I understand by 'handling IRC').	[reply]