Thanks for the positive response, Steven and Richard. I added a reminder to the Sourceforge ticket that this functionality should be documented in the manual as I find no mention of it, currently. At least not in the manual I usually look at: http://www.csounds.com/manual/html/CommandEnvironment.html Cheers, J On 07/09/13 14:43 +0000, Richard Henninger wrote: > > Happy to do so. > > Richard Henninger > richard@rghmusic.com > > From: Steven Yi > Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2013 10:30 AM > To: Developer discussions > > Hi Richard and Jesse, > Could one of you perhaps add a ticket to the Csound tracker for this? > I think most of the main devs have been pre-occupied with DAFx and > probably won't get to look at this for a little bit, and I didn't want > this issue to get lost. > Thanks! > steven > On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Richard Henninger > wrote: > > This seems similar to the forward and back slash issue with unix and > windows > > paths. Permitting either has promoted sharing of csd's, for > example, by not > > having to change relative path syntax between platforms. > > > > I'd think that environment variable delimiters might optimally be > solved in > > a similar manner: that any reasonable delimiter - semicolon, colon > or even > > whitespace or comma be allowed on input to a function whether it be > by stack > > argument, csd value or environment variable read. Simply apply > character > > substitution into an internal delimiter before applying any internal > > algorithm to the list. > > > > On output from an algorithm, say to an environment variable, use > character > > substitution from an internal delimiter to the standard delimiter > for a > > given platform. Writing to an OS asset is the only time csound > should care > > about platform specific delimiters - similar to when it works with > file > > paths. > > > > This seems to better promote platform independence in exchanging > csound data > > than would accomodating delimiters on a platform specific basis. > > > > Richard Henninger > > richard@rghmusic.com > > > > From: Jesse Lucas > > Sent: Monday, September 02, 2013 4:16 AM > > To: csound-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > > > For a long time I thought Csound environment variables like $INCDIR > > were only able to contain one path. When I finally looked at the > code > > I realized they do support multiple paths, but the paths must be > > separated by semicolons. > > > > Using semicolons for path separators in environment variables is a > > Microsoft Windows convention. Unix traditionally uses colons for > this > > purpose. > > > > Maybe you will consider something like the following patch which > sets > > the default environment variable path separator to a colon, and only > > uses a semicolon when WIN32 is defined. > > > > I hope this would make the multiple path behavior more easily > > discoverable for Unix users. > > > > This patch was built and tested on Linux only, so definitely needs a > > look on Windows and other platforms. > > > > Cheers, > > > > J > > > > P.S. Currently in git include/sysdep.h is duplicated in its entirety > > in... > > > > iOS/Csound iOS Examples/csound-iOS/headers/sysdep.h > > > > This patch does not modify that copy of the file. > > > > Jesse Lucas (1): > > Use colon as env var element delimiter on Unix > > > > Engine/envvar.c | 16 +++++++++------- > > include/sysdep.h | 6 ++++++ > > 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > > > > -- > > 1.7.10.4 > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- > > Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, > more! > > Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft > technologies > > and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of > step-by-step > > tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. 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