I'd just like to correct, for the record, that the Csound 5 project leader, of which I am part, is and has always been John ffitch. I am the fedora package maintainer for the olpcsound subset (and I'lll probably pick up the full Csound5 package too). John has also done a substantial work in setting up the subset build.
We would welcome, very much, Barry's input in Csound 5 development, if he'd like to be involved. Victor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Gettys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Maloney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]>; "Chris Ball" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "C. Scott Ananian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 4:08 PM Subject: Re: CSound server questions > John, > > We cannot use code from Barry since he tends to work by himself, his > code is unmaintainable except by him and its licensing has also been > somewhat questionable at times, though the licening problems may have > been addressed.. Were he to be run over by a truck (God forbid!), we'd > be in a complete pickle. > > The community CSound, that Victor leads, is widely used and supported by > a large community of people. > > Previous objections of "CSound bloat" (by things like the public csound > using the TK/TCL internally to the CSound library) have been addressed > by Victor, who now has (at configure time) a version of CSound5 built > out of the same source pool that drops those dependencies. > > You can be sure that *anything* that runs on the CSound lite we run on > OLPC will run on the public full CSound used in the music community; it > is an *exact* subset of the full CSound used by everyone except Barry. > > So we are also in a very much better compatibility situation than using > Barry's version. > > Hope this explanation helps. > - Jim > > > On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 06:42 -0400, John Maloney wrote: >> Thanks for the info. >> >> I had the impression that Barry Vercoe was working on a new, light- >> weight CsoundServer. Is that not true? >> >> -- John >> >> On Aug 27, 2008, at 5:15 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > There is no CsoundServer anymore; we use Csound as a library >> > through its API. If anyone wants some help on how to use it, to >> > play MIDI or anything else, he/she can talk to me, privately or >> > on this list. I'm away to ICMC at the moment, so replies might >> > be slow. But I'll give as much help as I can. >> > >> > Regards >> > >> > Victor >> > >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 11:35 pm >> > Subject: Re: CSound server questions >> > To: "C. Scott Ananian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > Cc: John Maloney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected] >> > >> > > Hi, >> > > >> > > > Did you ever get a satisfactory answer to your >> > > questions? I think >> > > > Pippy contains the best examples of using csound >> > > to play sounds -- >> > > > is that right, Chris? >> > > >> > > Well, I'd say that TamTam does. :) But yes, Pippy >> > > does some basic >> > > synthesis using sinewaves and music files with csound. >> > > >> > > - Chris. >> > > -- >> > > Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Devel mailing list >> > > [email protected] >> > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- > Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > One Laptop Per Child > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
