The detector should be fine, since the format used to send messages to
irker is not going to change (it worked without changes on all the irker
versions I used -- from 1.0 to 1.13).
OTOH irker is still relatively young and has a few minor problems.  The
latest version also requires irc3.4+, and AFAIU doesn't work with older
versions, so users might encounter some issues while
installing/configuring it.