After 6 months of loyal services, it was time for the Flammard Bible bot version 1 to leave.
Several reasons pushed me to rewrite the bot:
- I had begun to rewrite the underlying modules used by the bot and wanted to use them;
- I wanted to have a go at Natural Language Processing and get rid of all (or as many as possible) tags;
- Finally, the robot API for Google Wave was updated, leaving me with a code that depended on an obsolete API. That was the spark to get me started;
In short, version 2 of the Bible bot:
- Has no '
', 'v/blah/' or 'vl/blah/' tags. It just recognizes Bible references in the text and processes them automatically. The only bit of a tag that persists is 'q' or 'quote' in front of a verse reference, such as 'quote gen 1:3', which tells the bot to quote the verse instead of just making it a link to an external website; - Comes with a Wave gadget to configure it which replaces the '
' and ' ' tags.
Two pretty much unused functionalities were dropped in version 2:
- The '
' tag has no equivalent. My logs showed that nobody was using it. If you still want it, ping me. I might replace it with a Wave gadget once I expose the Flammard API publicly; - It is no longer possible to set the default Bible version per language, you can only set one default version per Wave.
You can install the bot by visiting this wave.