Why do this instead of just using Csound 5? It seems to me that you should
try to use Csound 5 and, if you have problems, report them so we can fix
them.

In other words, the Csound developers in general, and myself in particular,
have limited time. If I have to backport code from Csound 5 to Csound 4,
that means I can't get Csound 5 further towards release status.

However, if there is a REAL (i.e. MUSICAL) reason why Csound 5 won't work
for you, I need to know that. In that case I will either do some minimal
backporting, or I will make fixing the problem in Csound 5 a priority.

A MUSICAL reason is a MUSICAL feature that doesn't work (score doesn't
render, opcode is missing, opcode doesn't work, input/output doesn't work).
If you can ONLY work on Mac OS 9, that too would be a musical reason.

Original Message:
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From: vanDongen/Gilcher gml@xs4all.nl
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:08:24 +0000
To: csound-dev@eartha.mills.edu
Subject: [CSOUND-DEV:5229] csoundlib in csound4?


It seems that libcsound is not included in the regular csound release.
Or at least that the installed libcsound.a is compiled with jpff_glue
instead 
of csound.c, making it useless for programs using the API.

What version should I tell people to get if they want to use my jcsound 
program that requires a libcsound installed?
I think the same goes for wxcsound as well.


regards
Gerard

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> Why do this instead of just using Csound 5? It seems to me that you should
> try to use Csound 5 and, if you have problems, report them so we can fix
> them.

Because csound5 is considered unstable.The csoundlib was available for
csound4 so I am not asking to backport a feature for csound4, I am asking
that the normal distributed stable version of csound doesn't loose
features it has had. And that there is some documentation I can give with
my application about which version of csound works were to get it, which
version doesn't work etc.

At the time csound5 doesn't even have an install option in scons IIRC.

> In other words, the Csound developers in general, and myself in
> particular,
> have limited time. If I have to backport code from Csound 5 to Csound 4,
> that means I can't get Csound 5 further towards release status.

This is not what I am asking.
Again, the stable version should work like it has and it should be
documented which version works for what purposes.

regards
Gerard