On Saturday 29 April 2006 13:42, Dr. Richard Boulanger wrote:

> Will it run on a Mac?

Probably not on MacOS 9 and earlier, but OS X should theoretically work;
I do not have a Mac, though, so I cannot do any testing for that platform,
but the code is designed with portability between Linux, Windows, and OS X
in mind.

> Do I need to compile it to get it to run? 

Not if it is going to be included with the 5.02 release.

> Will there be a manual to accompany it?

Perhaps, although if a GUI is sufficiently well done and there are
tooltips where the purpose of a widget is not immediately obvious,
a manual should not be needed for someone familiar with general
Csound use. But if there is demand for a detailed manual, I may try
writing one.

> Is it ready for primetime now?

If you mean it is sufficiently stable, then, as of the current version,
yes, at least on Linux and Windows where I was able to build and test.
Additional features may need to be added later (e.g. more utilities,
and some functionality requested by users), but other than not having
all the utilities (currently, there is cvanal, pvanal, and list opcodes,
but more can easily be added until 5.02 is released), it is as good as
or better than Winsound 4.23.