Hello,
Just a quick reply on this:
- No part of Cocoa itself is open source.
- There is a higher level socket API in Cocoa/CoreFoundation: CFNetwork (http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Networking/Conceptual/CFNetwork/Concepts/Concepts.html) You can drop down into C-based sockets, but it's not necessary. There is even a higher level API called NSSocket.
- Yes, people have written bots in Cocoa before. In fact, I released a framework last summer to help in easily constructing them (http://www.sensoryresearch.net/thoughtconduit/dev?id=10). I have several IRC bots roaming the network universe that utilize the framework (e.g. FrequencyBot)
at any rate, just a heads up. cheers,
Pan
Just a quick reply on this:
- No part of Cocoa itself is open source.
- There is a higher level socket API in Cocoa/CoreFoundation: CFNetwork (http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Networking/Conceptual/CFNetwork/Concepts/Concepts.html) You can drop down into C-based sockets, but it's not necessary. There is even a higher level API called NSSocket.
- Yes, people have written bots in Cocoa before. In fact, I released a framework last summer to help in easily constructing them (http://www.sensoryresearch.net/thoughtconduit/dev?id=10). I have several IRC bots roaming the network universe that utilize the framework (e.g. FrequencyBot)
at any rate, just a heads up. cheers,
Pan