On Tuesday 18 April 2006 8:43 am, Istvan Varga wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 April 2006 16:32, Aaron Krister Johnson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 18 April 2006 9:01 am, Michael Gogins wrote:
> > > I have no idea how these things work, but I agree it is essential for
> > > Csound to become standard with Linux.
> >
> > Yes, good idea. But I will say Csound4 at this point should be the
> > standard, from a users perspective, until Csound5 works out-of-the-box as
> > expected.
>
> It does work out of the box for most users.

I imagine it does, but....

> While it cannot be guaranteed 
> that there are no possible cases when the old 4.x version works but 5.x
> does not, it is not fair to dump the new release just because one such
> case was found.

well, 'fair' is not what I'm thinking--I'm seeing that rightfully so the 
developer community is pushing the newer standard, but users have needs, too. 

If you say "this newer work that we are all proud of solves problem x", but 
the user depends having "feature y", but it is absent, it makes it messy to 
have to have two executables to do one thing. I want to be able to write my 
music, and I can't yet in Csound5, that's all. That said, I'm excited by the 
wonderful promise of Csound5.

We all depend on you developers, so thanks, and keep up the great work!

> Csound 5 does fix many problems and limitations, and it 
> adds useful new functionality; for example, support for JACK is now
> basically a requirement for any Linux sound application, yet the standard
> 4.23 distribution does not have it.

Agreed.

Best,
Aaron.


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