That's what I was asking myself. Are we not making it
more complicated than it should be?

Victor

>
> Richard Dobson wrote:
>
> > But maybe it is all too complicated, and rebuilding apps
> > each time the  API is changed is easier.
>
> Maybe I missed some important detail, but why would any
> addition of a new function break existing code ?
>
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Victor Lazzarini wrote:

> That's what I was asking myself. Are we not making it
> more complicated than it should be?
> 
> Victor
> 
> 

Very possibly. But having seen how the API has grown in size over its lifetime 
leaves me thinking it will continue to do so (though one supposes at a slower 
rate), and declaring the API "finished" may be less than straightforward, and 
ultimately a little arbitrary, under pressure for a final release. I undertsand 
there are some free function pointer slots "reserved for future use", so maybe 
there is no problem. Of course, when I originally proposed the extensible route, 
the API was a lot smaller! But in principle it seems likely that as new 
facilties continue to be added to Csound, and  host application developers quite 
reasonably want to have ever more fine-grained control, "we ain't seen nuthin' 
yet". In which case, there could yet be a case for an API that is extensible, 
modular, or whatever the correct term is.

Richard Dobson





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