Multiple channel handling

[indivisible-irl]

Allow the bot to run on multiple channels concurrently.

Hopefully won't need to get into multi-threading as I've heard multi-threading is a headache in python.

Anyway, this would be useful as there are already multiple channels people are using to chat. eg #learnjava is being used for JAdventure. And I have #ProgetherBotTest open for bots

[indivisible-irl]

Pull #27 made the first steps towards this but we still need to mod a lot of the code where channels get passed around to allow for multiple channels at once.

So not finished but getting there.

[kzisme]

Has this made any progress ,or where are we at now with this?

If not, what would be the initial steps to getting multiple channels working?

[projectdelphai]

Nothing has been done in this direction. Here's what I'm thinking. In the settings, have each channel info be added as a different section of the settings (with a database per channel). So one section for #reddit-progether and another for #progether-bots, for example. Then you would start the program with python main <channel_keyword> as an arg. Each channel keyword is connected to a section in the settings. Then mainpy would start a instance of ircBot in a different thread for each channel. Each ircBot thread would only load the necessary channel information from the settings.txt. I think having a new database for each channel is probably necessary and important though that may be debated.

[kzisme]

Well I like the direction this is going, but should we fix the settings.txt file in the other issue first? :)

[projectdelphai]

This issue is very low priority. Especially seeing as it's only being used in one channel.