From e553683b83be30ccc1564914843f032adaeae928 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 10:01:37 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Upgrade the test tool.

---
 hacking.txt |  2 +-
 irk         | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hacking.txt b/hacking.txt
index c56f559..286bd2d 100644
--- a/hacking.txt
+++ b/hacking.txt
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ type switch. It can deduce the repo type by looking, so it should.
 
 2. Do 'make pylint' to audit the code.
 
-3. Run irkerd and irkerhook.py; look at #irker on freenode to verify.
+3. Run irk with a sample message; look at #irker on freenode to verify.
 
 4. Bump the version numbers in irkerd and irkerhook.py
 
diff --git a/irk b/irk
index 9a93c3f..4ca4a84 100755
--- a/irk
+++ b/irk
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-# Illustrates how to test irkerd.
+# Illustrates how to test irkerd.  Requires that the irkerd source
+# be in the current directory.
 #
 # First argument must be a channel URL. If it does not begin with "irc", 
 # the base URL for freenode is prepended.
@@ -11,16 +12,29 @@ import json
 import socket
 import sys
 import fileinput
+import subprocess
+import time
+import os
 
 def send(target, message):
     data = {"to": target, "privmsg" : message}
-    print(json.dumps(data))
+    #print(json.dumps(data))
     try:
         s = socket.create_connection(("localhost", 6659))
         s.sendall(json.dumps(data))
     except socket.error, e:
         sys.stderr.write("irkerd: write to server failed: %r\n" % e)
 
+spawn = None
+try:
+    # irkerd might already be running
+    s = socket.create_connection(("localhost", 6659))
+except:
+    # If it isn't, spawn an instance
+    print "Spawning an irker instance..."
+    subprocess.Popen("irkerd", shell=True)
+    time.sleep(0.5)
+
 target = sys.argv[1]
 if not "irc:" in target:
     target = "irc://chat.freenode.net/{0}".format(target)
-- 
2.26.2