Re: Cleaning up rcirc

[Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

>>> I am not sure if you've tried out the recent changes, including
>>> asynchronous connecting and reconnecting -- this is what I am
>>> worrying about the most.  It seems to be working, and I have tried a
>>> few edge cases, but there might be some other situation that break
>>> in ways I didn't expect.
>>
>> Is there something I can test explicitly?  FWIW, I'm also connected
>> to irc.gitter.im which happens to become disconnected quite often
>> (meaning every few days).
>
> Nothing in particular, the intention is that asynchronous connecting
> should just be an improvement that doesn't break any workflow.

Ok, I've seen to failures so far.  However, I think auto-reconnect has
never worked for me.  Or maybe it just didn't always work.  (I guess
whenever it worked I haven't noticed it.)

AFAICS, auto-reconnect is triggered when the process sentinel for a
server receives "deleted\n" but it's only tried once, right?  I think it
would make sense to run reconnect from a timer trying again every
`rcirc-reconnect-delay' seconds (probably with a minimum of 10 seconds
or so) because if something's wrong (broken connection) it might take a
bit longer before reconnect will work.

Bye,
Tassilo