It's not a bad idea. It's like everything else, the devil is 
the details, and details are where computer bugs like to live.

-Partev

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--- richarddobson@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:

From: Richard Dobson 
To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: csoptions idea...
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:02:17 +0100

I am one of those (perhaps a minority) who thought CsOptions was a bad 
idea from the get-go. The csd  file (a) has no business telling me what 
hardware to use and how, and (b) there is no way it can work reliably 
all the time on N unknown hosts. My audio hardware is not even fixed 
(apart from the mac internal audio which I only use as Plan B or C); 
they are mostly external Firewire or USB devices, but not quite enough 
to go around all the machines I have to deal with; so I move them around 
a lot.

Any time I have cause to play someone's csd file, I have learned simply 
to delete all the CsOptions; almost invariably whatever -b -B settings 
it has, don't work. It is for the user to set up the options that work 
for them, on ~their~ machine; Csound should not dictate that, and most 
definitely a csd file should not.

Richard Dobson



Art Hunkins wrote:
> Steven,
> 
> Yes.
> 
> I am not a Blue user, and I write realtime compositions that I hope 
> others will perform using just my .csd (or Lettuce .exe) and Csound 
> (even a "stripped down" version, which I supply in a download .zip).
> 
> I do not know what kind of system the user will have. Right now if 
> necessary the user edits  (under my instructions); or, in 
> Lettuce, the performer has direct access to , also editing.
> 
> BTW, I use no .csoundrc - overriding anything necessary in .csoptions. 
> In my "stripped down" Csound there are no environment variables either; 
> everything is run from a single directory.
> 



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