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 PTlink IRC Services 3 - Development Notes
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 *  $Id: DEVNOTES,v 1.1.1.1 2005/08/27 15:43:26 jpinto Exp $

* Motivation *
After some years with using and expanding ircservices4 legacy I have learned
that I don't like most of the technical options which were taken on its
development so I did not found it suitable for the major changes we had in
mind.

* Goals *
The main goals for this new project, in a development point of view, were 
easy development by moving ircd related functions/handling to an auxiliary
library (libircservice) and data integration for web services (achieved by
using MySQL for the db).

* Limitations *
There has been some care for efficiency on resource usage but
that wasn't a major concern. PTlink IRC Services 3 were not planned to be
used by a large network, it's usability is strongly dependent on the MySQL
service performance.