Thanks for your feedback.

I've considered adding syntax highlighting to CsoundVST, I'll see how hard that is to do.

What does a breakpoint editor do (sorry to ask a silly question, but I've never used one)?

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: David Akbari 
>Sent: Apr 26, 2006 5:35 PM
>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: [Csnd] 4.23 Manual
>
>
>On Apr 26, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Michael Gogins wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the information... I thought Python was part of the 
>> problem. There are 2 things that could be done:
>>
>> (1) Make the Csound installer install Python if it's not already 
>> installed. Obviously this doesn't help with size problems!
>>
>
>Isn't there a way in Windows to have it connect to some kind of 
>packages repository ? I'm thinking of the MinGW or Cygwin installer 
>that queries a database and can install dependencies remotely.
>
>Perhaps this functionality could be added to the Csound for Windows 
>installer so that it would locate download Python from the installer 
>but not have to be bundled with it.
>
>> (2) Make CsoundVST use Lua not Python (Lua can be built right into 
>> Csound; it's TINY but basically as powerful as Python -- and faster 
>> too, but not quite as easy to write).
>>
>
>Interesting.
>
>> And that raises another question:
>>
>> What does Lettuce do that CsoundVST doesn't do?
>
>Topically and most relevant, Csound syntax highlighting. It's strange 
>the type of psychological effect it has looking at a large Csound 
>orchestra when there's no syntax highlighting. It makes things somewhat 
>more difficult to debug.
>
>Also the breakpoint editor but I find that it's possible to use Cecilia 
>or TclCsound just as easily to generate breakpoint based function 
>tables for use with CsoundVST.
>
>
>-David
>
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