I would say for this case, however, that not having OPCODEDIR set has
been the number one issue regarding csound5 to arise over the past
year, and would merit a very large warning.  Also, as large as the
message is, most of us won't ever even see it as I assume we all
already have it set.

steven


On 9/15/05, Michael Gogins <gogins@pipeline.com> wrote:
> I would prefer a less blatant message, please! It's too hard, over a long period of development, to figure out which messages are really more important than others, so let them all be the same size and agony level.
> 
> Regards,
> Mike
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Yi <stevenyi@gmail.com>
> Sent: Sep 15, 2005 11:58 AM
> To: Csound-dev <csound-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: [Cs-dev] No OPCODEDIR set message
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Since OPCODEDIR and OPCODEDIR64 being set is coming up as an issue
> over and over again, what does everyone think about displaying a
> message to the user when they run Csound and it is not set, something
> like:
> 
> ###############################################################
> # WARNING: OPCODEDIR IS NOT SET!
>                                 #
> # Csound requires this environment variable to be set to find it's
> opcode libraries.#
> # If It is not set, you may experience missing opcodes and audio/midi
> drivers.       #
> ###############################################################
> 
> I would prefer something as loud as possible as the above, but a less
> bold message would be fine too.  Any objections?
> 
> steven
> 
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