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[dylanwh]

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Dylan William Hardison <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
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Package: Haver Ain't Very Exciting, Really
System name: haver
Type: non-GNU

Description:
I have been writing a simple real(ish) time chat server,

written in Perl using POE (really nice set of perl modules).

I have a few reasons for doing this. Mainly I want a simple

server to talk to friends with. Emphasis on simple.

The protocol is just lines (CR-LF) with words seperated by tabs,

and should be easy to parse in any language.



A friend of mine is writing a different chat server, in perl,

but it is becoming more complicated all the time... He's using XML

for the protocol, and it has a plugin system that uses Inter-process

communication... It's like a microkernel chat system. 



My system *was* working, until I ripped out the guts...

I was tracking nicknames with a simple hash, and it was turning

into really ugly code.



Let's see... I'm calling it Haver

(Hay-ver, to talk foolishly), and the server is called

haver(e?)d. I started writing it several weeks ago, and it was in a

workable state that same day... I know some other people that want to

wrok on it, hence my want for a savannah project.





http://dylan.hardison.net/haver.tar.gz is the source, such as it is.

There is a Perl/Tk client that works, but the server doesn't.

the perl/tk client was written by a friend of mine (in like, an hour ;)





So, the goal is to have a very simple chat server, similar to IRC

but with some extra admin features, with a simple protocol that

so that clients can be easily written for it. 



Oh, and I decided to use savannah because I'm a bit paranoid about

sourceforge...



(This is the re-submittion; I had to add copyright notices and a copy of the 
GPL. I believe everything is okay in that respect now.)

Other Software Required:
POE

perl 5.6

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