Hello world and everybody !
i’m pleased to announce the release of GOZERBOT 0.99.0, the first in a series of releases that are supposed to lead to a proper 1.0 release for GOZERBOT. The intention is to get a 1.0 version of GOZERBOT available for users that still use this bot, got almost 2000 download of 0.9.2 so its worth to support all those users with a release they can build on. I dont have the intention to develop GOZERBOT any further beyond that, that’s what JSONBOT is all about, so keep in mind these are pure maintenance releases.
2 major changes crept into this release, namely:
* no more seperate gozerplugs package, its all wrapped into 1 thing. The gozerplugs package has find its way under the gplugs directory in the main distro so no more seperate installing of plugins.
* SQLAlchemy is now optional, so GOZERBOT can run on older versions of debian etc. Since this leads to less dependancies GOZERBOT is easier to install.
note: there is not going to be a seperate “all” distro as those dependancies are already included.
SQLAlchemy is made optional by providing plugins that use direct queries on the database, this is the default. You can change operations back to SA by setting db_driver = “alchemy” in gozerdata/mainconfig.
The intention is to release a new version of GOZERBOT every week or so, until its stable for a long period of time. When its time i’ll cut of the 1.0 release ;]
urls:
* download tar – http://code.google.com/p/gozerbot/downloads/list
* mercurial clone – “hg clone https://gozerbot.googlecode.com/hg mybot”
* please report bugs at http://code.google.com/p/gozerbot/issues/entry especially if you are already running a GOZERBOT and run into problems.
* path to the futire – http://jsonbot.org
read the provided README for instructions on how to get the bot running.
note: i switched to a new blog, namely http://botfather.blogspot.com so i can blog about all bots i work on, not just gozerbot ;] See you there !!
