Csound 5 and Csound 4 are not binary compatible. Wouldn't this create a problem here?

The binary differences are in the Csound API and in the function signatures for opcodes.

-----Original Message-----
From: "John D. Ramsdell" 
Sent: Mar 19, 2005 9:35 AM
To: csound-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Cs-dev] csound-config for Csound 5

To all Csound 5 developers, 

Please add a csound-config script to Csound 5 patterned after the one
distributed with Csound 4.  If you install a csound-config script into
the place in which you install binaries, this script will allow users
of your libraries and headers to easily and automatically configure
their applications for use with Csound 5.  For applications that use
only the Csound 4 API, such a script would allow a source version of a
the application known to work with Csound 4 to automatically detect
and use Csound 5 whenever it is available.  No modifications to the
source would be required.  An example of a system that would benefit
from the addition of a csound-config script is Loris
. 

John






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Michael Gogins  writes:

> Csound 5 and Csound 4 are not binary compatible. Wouldn't this create a problem here?
> 
> The binary differences are in the Csound API and in the function
> signatures for opcodes.

Binary compatibility is not the issue, as I'm talking about building
opcodes from their sources, however, if Csound 5 API requires changes
to the source code of opcodes, there will indeed be a problem.

When considering this issue, look at it from the perspective of an
application such as Loris.  If you do not require those applications
to change their code when moving from Csound 4 to 5, then the
csound-config script will allow them to make no changes to their code
base when Csound 5 is released.

John

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "John D. Ramsdell" 
> Sent: Mar 19, 2005 9:35 AM
> To: csound-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Cs-dev] csound-config for Csound 5
> 
> To all Csound 5 developers, 
> 
> Please add a csound-config script to Csound 5 patterned after the one
> distributed with Csound 4.  If you install a csound-config script into
> the place in which you install binaries, this script will allow users
> of your libraries and headers to easily and automatically configure
> their applications for use with Csound 5.  For applications that use
> only the Csound 4 API, such a script would allow a source version of a
> the application known to work with Csound 4 to automatically detect
> and use Csound 5 whenever it is available.  No modifications to the
> source would be required.  An example of a system that would benefit
> from the addition of a csound-config script is Loris
> . 
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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