The situation is still not clear to me.

Does SCons work with ANY version of the Mac OS? If so, which ones?

Or do you only work with Mac OS 9?

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Michael Gogins
gogins at pipeline period com
Irreducible Productions
CsoundVST, an extended version of Csound for programming music and sound
Available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/csound/
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthony Kozar" 
To: "Csound Developers Discussion List" 
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 9:27 PM
Subject: [CSOUND-DEV:4456] Re: Csound5


> (this is my third draft of this email -- I am trying very hard not to
ramble
> :)
>
> On 4/6/04 7:10 PM, Michael Gogins etched in stone:
>
> > Bad news!
> >
> > Anthony, what is your preference in build systems?
>
> Jam is the only build system out of the ones that you mentioned that
already
> works on MacOS 9.
>
> I usually prefer working with a project-based IDE (i.e. CodeWarrior).
> However, I think that free software should have a free build system
> available as an option.
>
> I will continue working with Scons and MPW as an alternative as I am able.
>
> Anthony Kozar
> anthony.kozar@utoledo.edu
>

I am sorry for the confusion.

As I am sure you are aware, MacOS 7-9 and MacOS X are almost completely
different platforms.  I have not tested Scons on OS X, but due to OS X's
Unix base (it uses Unix pathnames), I would expect Scons to work just fine
on it*.

MacOS 9 and earlier** use a different convention for pathnames and Scons
currently does not fully support it (although Python does).

I use OS 9.1 almost exclusively.  I have OS X 10.1 installed on my machine
but I do not like it.  My wife's computer has OS X 10.2.  So I am able to
test on those versions but I plan on using OS 9 as my primary system until
something truly better comes along.

So, I see my primary role here as being one of the maintainers of the Legacy
Mac port of Csound.  I hope that I am not stepping on anyone's toes, but I
have been trying to take on this role because it doesn't seem like anyone
else is interested.

I view deveIopment of the OS X version of Csound as a separate effort and
just another variation on the *nix port.  I am happy, though, to assist with
development on OS X as I am able.

I am sorry if my comments about OS X and Python in a previous post were
confusing.  I also tend to say just "Mac" a lot when I really mean to
exclude OS X.

Thanks for taking the time to understand the problems I am having.

:)

Anthony Kozar
anthony.kozar@utoledo.edu


* Except possibly on 10.1 which has no built-in Python.  I have looked
around a little bit more now, and I have found at least two Python binary
distributions available from third-parties which are supposedly usable on
10.1.  Using them would require downloading and learning to use a non-Apple
package manager however.

** Some call this "Classic" but that is confusing with OS X's "Classic
environment" -- I prefer the term "Legacy MacOS."


On 4/6/04 10:33 PM, Michael Gogins etched in stone:

> The situation is still not clear to me.
> 
> Does SCons work with ANY version of the Mac OS? If so, which ones?
> 
> Or do you only work with Mac OS 9?