[IRCServices Coding] Which route to take - Module?

[Craig McLure]

dont mean to sound rude, but this isnt a 'moral' discussion, as it were, rather than saying 'I dont think this needs done', i think it would be best to help him.. its not a discussion on if its right or wrong, its a 'How to do it' discussion.. If you cant contribute to this.. please ignore this 'thread' :p

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>Brent DiNicola wrote:
>
>> It wasn't an easy subject to sum up in just a few words.
>>
>> I am wanting to do something to the ircservices code, I want to change
>> the way the notice() works. I know that modifying the send.c would be
>> very frowned upon and then I got to thinking and had suggested that I
>> maybe make a module to keep the information for me. I know it's against
>> the RFC, but I am pressed against a brick wall here, I have to give 
>> the users
>> an option to use PRIVMSG or NOTICE. Now, to help people move to NOTICE
>> I would like to give them the option of turning on PRIVMSG but have 
>> NOTICE
>> be the default, that would get the lazy people to use NOTICE. Eventually
>> getting rid of this problem. In the mean time, I was thinking what is 
>> the best
>> way to go about this without causing trouble for me and anyone else 
>> who has
>> to deal with this code. Is it possible or even suggested to make a 
>> module that
>> would replace the notice() from send.c with it's own, leaving the code 
>> in send.c
>> alone and not causing troubles down the road. Suggestions were that I 
>> make a
>> module that kept the info for each nick's setting and then if I could 
>> override
>> the notice() and notice_lang() and notice_help() in send.c that would 
>> keep all the
>> other code clean and not cause other troubles. I want to know what the 
>> best
>> way to do this would be, I know it's against RFC but I want to move to 
>> newer
>> services than the 1.4.3pre4 that we are using now and add modules so 
>> that I
>> can do things down the line. They are used to having PRIVMSG and I 
>> can't just
>> change it without running people off, so if I can make PRIVMSG an option
>> then I can't be blamed if they are lazy. Opinions on how to go about 
>> this? I
>> know this topic has been asked before and I know your not going to 
>> make it
>> part of your code, I just wanted to know from the people who know the 
>> code
>> really well what the best route to take would be to do the least 
>> amount of
>> damage. (And if someone has done this.. please let me know what you did,
>> examples would rock)
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Brent
>>
>>
>>
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>> |               Brent DiNicola                                  |
>> |           The Whitewolf of Immyrr                     |
>> |                  <elric at elric.net>                             |
>> |           http://www.melnibone.net                      |
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>
>Services is not the place to fix broken clients, and any client which 
>doesn't display notices correctly is broken. If someone wants to see 
>notices differently, they can either
>a) change their client or in the case of webtv b) change the ircd
>
>services is the wrong thing to change
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