irkerd: Store less state in IRCServerConnection.connect()

[irker.git] / install.txt

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@@ -16,6 +16,17 @@ humans watching irkerd's output, are mere spam).
 See the security.txt document for a detailed discussion of security
 and DoS vulnerabilities related to irker.
 
+== Prerequisites ==
+
+You will need either 
+
+1. Python at version 2.6 or later, which has JSON built in
+
+2. Python at version no older than 2.4, and a version of the
+   simplejson library installed that it can use.  Some newer
+   versions of simplejson discard 2.4 compatibility; 2.0.9
+   is known to work.
+
 == Installing irkerd ==
 
 irker needs to run constantly, watching for TCP and UDP traffic on
@@ -27,10 +38,6 @@ to show all traffic with IRC servers.
 You should *not* make irker visible from outside the site firewall, as
 it can be used to spam IRC channels while masking the source address.
 
-You will need to have Jason Coombs's irc library where Python can see
-it.  See <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/irc/>; use version 3.0 or later,
-not the older code from SourceForge.
-
 The file org.catb.irkerd.plist is a Mac OS/X plist that can be
 installed to launch irkerd as a boot-time service on that system.
 
@@ -51,6 +58,12 @@ with this:
 
 /path/to/irkerhook.py --refname=${refname} $(git rev-list ${oldhead}..${newhead} | tac)
 
+SourceForge is a special case: see
+
+https://github.com/AI0867/sf-git-irker-pipeline
+
+for tools and instructions on how to work around its limitations.
+
 == Testing ==
 
 To verify that your repo produces well-formed JSON notifications,