Recent bMotion CVS has a “bitlbee” mode which lets it understand how to use a bitlbee server to cross from IRC to chat protocols, and bitlbee supports jabber. I haven’t tried jabber but I’ve had a bMotion bot on ICQ and MSN recently.

There is a project to allow eggdrop to access jabber, i don’t really know how far they are and if it can join groupchats.

Anyway here is the url: http://www.niemueller.de/software/eggdrop/jabberbot/

Looking at the eggdrop/jabber link, it looks like that’s just a way of getting an eggdrop to send alerts to jabber clients, rather than actually treating them as irc channels, which is I guess what I want.

As for bitlbee, it sounds ideal except that they don’t support jabber groupchats

I had a bot going at one point which did simple bridging of IRC to Groupchat (copying messages from one to the other, so that people on each side could see through the looking glass, as it were), but the whole thing was written in Java so obviously compatibility with the TCL scripts is out of the question.

But I’ve always wondered the same thing… mainly how possible it would be to do, since IRC and MUC aren’t exactly a 1-to-1 mapping.

That would almost be enough, since all I want is to have the effect of a bot sitting in a groupchat.
If the java thingy relayed just what the bot said (i.e. have it alone in a channel on a private server) to the groupchat, and what the groupchat said to the irc channel, it could work.
I’d rather bitlbee just had groupchat support though
Any volunteers? I spoke to the devs, who said we were many months away.

Doesn’t have a BMotion plugin, but is close to cloning most of Eggdrop’s functionality.
PCJBot.

Interesting, is there any chance of a TCL module so I can plug bmotion’s scripts into it?