Just for the record, I did not remove your developer account -- for two reasons. I'm not a CVS administrator, and I wouldn't have removed it because of this UDO business if I was an administrator.

As for Csound 5, I at least would have pressed for a release of Csound 5 even if it was not as complete as it was with your contributions. And I think it would still have been better than the previous version.

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: Istvan Varga 
>Sent: May 19, 2006 10:38 AM
>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: [Csnd] [Cs-dev] Max number of outlets in a UDO ?
>
>Yes, I am aware that having more than one distribution is not optimal, but
>I am also worried about the possibility of more conflicts in the future
>with other developers (as well as those other developers probably being
>worried, too). Whoever has removed my Csound developer accont probably had
>a reason for doing so.
>On the other hand, it is attractive (particularly in the case of a project
>done as a hobby for no actual gain) to be able to edit, reformat,
>reorganize, or delete any files without getting angry complaints, or
>wasting time on pointless flame wars, even if at the expense of efforts
>spent on synchronizing sources.
>The choice between being "unofficial" or having a lot of frustration is not
>easy. As I already registered a project, unless it is rejected, I may just
>as well use it until enough reasons are found for not doing so.
>
>> let us imagine that you had continued to develop your "unofficial" 4.23
>> version of Csound, instead of joining the Csound 5 project. Let us also
>> imagine that I and others had worked on Csound 5 as we do today. Which
>> version would be the more widely useful for the larger number of musicians?
>> I have no doubt that your version would have fewer bugs and would evolve
>> quickly, but I also believe that the Csound 5 version would have more
>> features appealing to more different kinds of musician.
>
>Csound 5 would probably still be beta, though, and not likely to be released
>in 2006; but this is only guessing from CVS logs and file annotations (i.e
>who edited what and when), and I may be overestimating my own contributions.
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