Thanks for the explanation.  Be nice if the docs matched, though... (:-/)

	-- Pete --

On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 06:43:10AM +0000, Victor Lazzarini wrote:
> The rationale is that liblo does not perform well in sending many messages. This was discovered a couple of years ago. Apart from this minor issue of name lookup, the
> change has worked very well and we are not
> reverting it.
> 
> The solution to this issue is to fix the code to make the DNS translation if needed.
> 
> Victor Lazzarini
> Dean of Arts, Celtic Studies, and Philosophy
> Maynooth University
> Ireland
> 
> > On 21 May 2019, at 02:26, Pete Goodeve <pete.goodeve@computer.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 02:53:38PM -0700, Pete Goodeve wrote:
> >>> On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 09:47:04AM +0100, john wrote:
> >>> Sounds like a side effect of the change from liblo to drect code.
> >>> 
> >> Looks like that's it!  I wasn't able to try Csound5 before, because
> >> I didn't seem to have OSC in Haiku, but it turned out it just wasn't
> >> finding liblo and not telling me. I got it set up right, and yes, DNS
> >> hostnames work properly there.
> >> 
> >> So it can't be too hard to restore that feature.  I'll take a look.
> >> 
> > Hmm, maybe a bit harder than I thought.  In the old version liblo
> > did all the work.  Must still be possible, but I'm not familiar with
> > networking calls to know what's needed.
> > 
> > But what was the rationale for the switch from plugin to main
> > library?  A lot of the functions are still in the plugin, and after
> > exploring I see that the old 'OSCsend' is now 'OSCsend_lo' -- and
> > works perfectly well!  Maybe rather better as it *does* accept
> > hostnames!  Just not documented, except a line in the 6.09
> > Release Notes.
> > 
> > I also see that the 'socksend' page explicitly states that the
> > address for that must be dotted numeric, so the requirement
> > was known, but unintentionally propagated, I guess.
> > 
> > I guess OSCbundle and OSCraw are new in the main library,
> > but why not move OSCsend back and put the others there too?
> > Everything would be consistent, then. What would be the
> > disadvantages?
> > 
> >    -- Pete --
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