Competing IRC Class - Yapircl - Yet Another PHP IRC Library

Hi. I am the developer of Yet Another PHP IRC Library. I have been lurking on the pear IRC channel and the mailinglists for some time now and since the recent announcement of a competing IRC class I feel the need to come out of the closet with my project as there might be namespace issues etc:) Consider this a request for comments. I will be happy to move the development to the PEAR cvs should you feel the quality is sufficent. http://projects.gtk.mine.nu/yapircl http://projects.gtk.mine.nu/archive/yapircl/yapircl-0.5.7.tar.gz http://home.online.no/~geir37/archive/yapircl/yapircl-0.5.7.tar.gz (mirror) Status It is close to feature complete and should be stable, the longest running YapirclBot based client I know of has been running for 40 days. Status win32 There were issues with nonblocking sockets in the socket extension on that platform the last time I tested, I tried commenting out those calls and it worked. <rant> Plans What I feel remains is a rewrite to handle multiple connections better by allowing multiple connections to be made from within the same Yapircl instance. I am considering separating out the guts into an irc connection object and dcc connection object which will be handled inside the main Yapircl object. This master object will then deal with the select()ing etc. This is not totally trivial as it might affect the current API because Yapircl is used by subclassing it and adding callbacks so I would need to find a solution to this. The timer system would also have to be modified. I could rewrite it even more to make objects for users, channels and whatever. However as I see it a lot of "traversing an array of objects" issues are avoided with the current use of associative arrays with keys I am somewhat wary of rewritting all of this just to use an object in places there are might be no appearant advantages to use objects and might complicate the usage of the library. This has been a learning experience for me and is probably my largest software project yet so I'm very open to suggestions. </rant> -- Geir Torstein Kristiansen web: http://projects.gtk.mine.nu