Michael,

what you'll be doing is a great thing.
As far as CM is concerned., I reckon a big part of the path has already
been trodden by Rick Taube himself with his Lambda-GTK graphics
layer implementation (which he presented at the last ICMC). His
method for binding GTK to Common Lisp, I reckon, can be employed
for the csound library.
I would suggest you get in touch with him, if you have not already
done so.

all the best

Victor

At 09:10 11/10/2005, Victor Lazzarini wrote:
>At 18:43 10/10/2005, you wrote:
>>I will undertake a Lisp or Scheme binding for Csound 5 so that the Csound 
>>API can be called natively from Common Music.
>>
>>Before I do this, I would like to know which version of Scheme or Lisp I 
>>should target. I will be doing the development work on Windows and Linux. 
>>Rick Taube's book comes with CLisp for Windows and this also can be used 
>>on OS X and Linux, so I would guess this is the best target.  CLisp runs 
>>Common Music just fine on my PC.
>>
>>I do not have time to maintain multiple bindings, so I need to know the 
>>best compromise.
>>
>>Unfortunately, the most mature SWIG facilities for Lisp are actually for 
>>Guile and MzScheme (both Scheme). On my PC, Guile does not run and 
>>building it requires many dependencies, which I can obtain if consensus 
>>favors Guile over CLisp.
>>
>>As part of this work, I will be moving the C++ form of the Csound API 
>>from the CsoundVST project into the Csound API library proper, and also 
>>moving the Python wrappers.
>>
>>This will NOT introduce any additional dependencies in the Csound API 
>>library build except for SWIG, and I can book in the generated wrapper 
>>code so that even SWIG is not required for the normal build.
>>
>>Please advise me which is the best version of Lisp or Scheme to use for 
>>Common Music and the Csound API.
>>
>>I would like to finish this work before Csound 5 achieves release status.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Mike
>>
>>
>>
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>Victor Lazzarini
>Music Technology Laboratory
>Music Department
>National University of Ireland, Maynooth