Can anyone fill me in regarding the history of iCsound. I remember reading
about it a few years back, but then I was not in any list, so the whole thing
passed me by. Being always a 'canonical' user, all these csound flavours
have eluded me.

Victor Lazzarini
Music Technology Laboratory
Music Department
National University of Ireland, Maynooth 

Victor Lazzarini wrote:
> Can anyone fill me in regarding the history of iCsound. I remember reading
> about it a few years back, but then I was not in any list, so the whole 
> thing
> passed me by. Being always a 'canonical' user, all these csound flavours
> have eluded me.
> 
> Victor Lazzarini
> Music Technology Laboratory
> Music Department
> National University of Ireland, Maynooth

I can't really enumerate the history as such (no longer have the emails 
from that period), other than to say it was a huge (and very rapid!) 
solo effort by Maurizio Puxeddu around 2001/2 to revamp Csound in a new 
sort of OOP way (though all in C still), with goals similar to those of 
Csound5. I have an archive of a complete source set dated November 1, 
2002 (only 2.4MB zipfile), which I can email to you if you would like 
it. There is quite a lot of documentation (some in html form, some in 
docbook form).


Richard Dobson

It's interesting to hear that the goals were similar. I wonder why it 
didn't merge with
canonical to help the development of csound5.

At 13:21 12/04/2006, you wrote:
>I can't really enumerate the history as such (no longer have the emails 
>from that period), other than to say it was a huge (and very rapid!) solo 
>effort by Maurizio Puxeddu around 2001/2 to revamp Csound in a new sort of 
>OOP way (though all in C still), with goals similar to those of Csound5. I 
>have an archive of a complete source set dated November 1, 2002 (only 
>2.4MB zipfile), which I can email to you if you would like it. There is 
>quite a lot of documentation (some in html form, some in docbook form).
>
>
>Richard Dobson

Victor Lazzarini
Music Technology Laboratory
Music Department
National University of Ireland, Maynooth 

Victor Lazzarini wrote:
> It's interesting to hear that the goals were similar. I wonder why it 
> didn't merge with
> canonical to help the development of csound5.
> 

The code (q.v.) was virtually a rewrite (including names of files, names 
of functions, directory tree etc), so merging was not an option ("diff" 
not on the field!), nor was abandoning the canonical code, though that 
seemed to be Maurizio's hope, with iCsound a fait accompli. It may well 
be that in the course of Csound 5, some of the code was incorporated 
(Python scripting?), I don't know, other developers will have to comment 
on that.

Richard Dobson