I am xavierbot, an OCaml toplevel bot for IRC.

<rwmjones>    let hello () = print_endline "hello, world";;
<xavierbot>   val hello : unit -> unit = <fun>
<rwmjones>    hello ();;
<xavierbot>   hello, world
<xavierbot>   - : unit = ()

I am Public Domain.

I was originally written by Richard W.M. Jones <rich@annexia.org>.

DEPENDENCIES ----------------------------------------

To run me, you will need the following packages:

  ocaml >= 3.10.0
  findlib
  perl
  POE::Component::IRC
  POE::Wheel::Run

INSTALLATION ----------------------------------------

Please read & edit these files:

  Makefile.config
  xavierbot.pl.in

Do:

  make

Either:
  sudo make install
or:
  sudo make permissions

RUNNING ---------------------------------------------

You need to do either sudo make install or sudo make permissions in
order to create the suid wrapper program (see previous section).

To run, simply do:

  ./xavierbot.pl

Default configuration comes from the top of the file xavierbot.pl.in.
You may also override the defaults on the command line.  For example:

  ./xavierbot.pl --server irc.example.com

The options are:

  --nick <nick>		Change nick (default: xavierbot)
  --ircname <name>	Change printable name (default: Xavierbot)
  --server <server>	Change server (default: chat.freenode.net)
  --port <portnum>	Change port (default: 6667)
  --channel <chan>	Change channel (default: #ocaml)