w00t!

[unixronin]

It's official, folks:  My multithreaded Perl ICB client, ICBM, is now feature complete, and I have just finished officially releasing v1.0.0 on Sourceforge.  (For those not familiar with it, ICB can be thought of as IRC Lite, using standalone servers and a simple protocol that's very difficult to exploit.)

ICBM is about 3300 lines of Perl, and requires Perl-5.6.0 or later (compiled with ithreads support¹) and about half a dozen additional modules which may or may not be included in your Perl installation.

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¹ It is a source of continuing annoyance to me that all OS distributions that include Perl STILL build their Perl distribution with ithreads disabled by default².  Come on, people, wake up and smell the coffee.  ithreads is not Perl-5.005's threads.pm.  ithreads WORKS.  ICBM is proof of that.

² Actually, I have just been corrected on this.  I am informed by dustgrl that the standard Perl distribution for Macintosh OS/X is shipped with threads enabled.

Comments

[jmkelly.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Now I need to figure out a new project, one that maybe more people will use, build some reputation (and maybe even something I can even make a little money on).

Though I have something nagging at me that there's another useful feature I could add .... I thought of it earlier this evening and the thought promptly escaped me.