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Jeremy Fincher 2003-08-30 22:01:13 +00:00
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@ -76,12 +76,34 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
name = anything('What should the name of the plugin be?')
if name.endswith('.py'):
name = name[:-3]
print 'Supybot offers two major types of plugins: command-based and '
print 'regexp-based. Command-based plugins are the kind of plugins '
print 'you\'ve seen most when you\'ve used supybot. They\'re also the '
print 'most featureful and easiest to write. Commands can be nested, '
print 'for instance, whereas regexp-based callbacks can\'t do nesting.'
print
print 'That doesn\'t mean that you\'ll never want regexp-based callbacks.'
print 'They offer a flexibility that command-based callbacks don\'t offer;'
print 'however, they don\'t tie into the whole system as well.'
print
print 'If you need to combine a command-based callback with some'
print 'regexp-based methods, you can do so by subclassing '
print 'callbacks.PrivmsgCommandAndRegexp and then adding a class-level '
print 'attribute "regexps" that is a sets.Set of methods that are '
print 'regexp-based. But you\'ll have to do that yourself after this '
print 'wizard is finished :)'
print
if expect('Do you want a command-based plugin' \
' or a regexp-based plugin?',
['command', 'regexp']) == 'command':
className = 'callbacks.Privmsg'
else:
className = 'callbacks.PrivmsgRegexp'
print 'Sometimes you\'t want a callback to be threaded. If its methods'
print '(command or regexp-based, either one) will take a signficant amount'
print 'of time to run, you\'ll want to thread them so they don\'t block'
print 'the entire bot.'
print
if yn('Does your plugin need to be threaded?') == 'y':
threaded = 'threaded = True'
else: