Hi All,

It being a new year I thought I'd query the list to see what everyone
thought about Csound's current status as well as seeing about things
we would all like to achieve with where to take Csound.

Regarding the current release of Csound, I think that the fix that
Anthony suggested and that I checked in regarding paths on Windows
seems like it should get out to the public as quickly as possible and
I'd like to request that at least a new Windows build be released and
better if a new release all around was to happen.  I don't think it
would have to be a major point release, just a minor mostly bug fix
release so maybe 5.04.1.  It seems that the bug has caused a number of
problems for people either using the GUI's or API.  Any thoughts?

Also, I don't remember the status of the problem David Akbari posted
about and if that was ever resolved.

Regarding where Csound is going, I realized that in the past when
there was heated ranting by a user or users that it often spurred a
lot of quick (if stressful!) changes.  Rather than waiting for a
heated rant, shall we poll the main list for user thoughts on where
they see deficiencies in the current Csound releases?

As for personal work, I've taken a long break from the new parser but
I think will resume work on that next week.  Rather than continue to
work on that in a separate branch I'd like to integrate that back into
the HEAD branch as well as do as I mentioned a month or so ago, which
is to set up two layers of options to use: one in SConstruct that
would build in the new parser or not, and second a commandline flag to
enable using the new parser.  Both of those would default to no,
meaning if you just checked out from CVS and didn't turn on to build
the parser, nothing would change for you.  Even if you built with the
new parser, it wouldn't be used unless explicitly told to via
commandline, so again nothing would change for normal usage.  The code
is encapsulated into its own files so does not affect the current use
of Csound even when compiled in, so I think this is very safe to
integrate.  If everyone is okay with this, I'll go ahead on Monday to
integrate and start working from there.

Thanks!
steven

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