I may have missed some of these discussions, but the last time,
when the 'chn' opcodes were added, you wrote about them "but i
think in the end would be a replacement of invalue/outvalue and
zak too really - as well as the proposed bussing system [ has
that ever been finished? ] i'm fine with replacing with
invalue/outvalue -- but i do think it would be VERY nice if zak
and buss [ and even inch/outch ] were replaced as well, so we
get ONE system". I interpreted this as invalue and outvalue not
being very important: they should be kept for compatibility, but
not extended.

If using the software bus is really unacceptable, it is possible
to:
  - create new extended API functions for invalue/outvalue, and
    optionally make the old k-rate only ones deprecated (i.e.
    scheduled for removal when the API major version is
    increased)
  - implement hacks like the one described below that allow for
    passing strings even with the already existing callbacks

On Friday 26 May 2006 22:48, matt ingalls wrote:

> If there is a way to enhance the current API
> functs without breaking existing hosts, i am all for it -
> but i can't think of a way other than what i currently do with
> csound4, which is a hack by appending a string at the end
> of the channel name and sending a special# for the value
> to signal that the string is appended to the channel name.
> 
> i'll look into enhancing the current invalue/outvalue opcodes.
> 
> As far as duplicating efforts, in my view, MY WORK has been
> duplicated!  invalue/outvalue has been in there since michael
> and i merged our APIs (2001 was it?)
> 
> Read the archives - i pleaded even BEGGED many times on the
> dev list to expand the invalue/outvalue opcodes instead of created
> an entirely new interface for the bus.  i offered to roll in my code  
> from
> my frontend app that handles the creation and table of channels
> MANY times and, except for Steven Yi, i was completely ignored.
> 
> And now i am supposed to trash my work and re-implement the
> same functionality with your software bus.  It is you who are wasting
> my time!


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