I'm afraid you missed one major thrust of my message. I am in fact quite
concerned about multi-platform capability. My system Silence runs on both
Windows and Linux (thanks to Dave Pnillips). If Csound is a "pure ANSI C
runtime library" engine and implements Java native methods, and the Csound
GUI and extras are all done in Java, then the whole system is cross-platform
without much, if indeed any, extra work at all.

-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Whittle 
To: music-dsp@shoko.calarts.edu 
Cc: CSOUND 
Date: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: Csound and other synthesis systems


>Michael Gogins mounted his soapbox on the limitations of Csound.  He
>seemed to be focused on a Windows-based patchable-synthesiser view of
>software synthesis.
>
>Here's the view from my particular soapbox.
>
>There is much more to software synthesis and Csound than being like a
>Moog modular on MIDI, but such a thing would certainly be a marvel and
>would be widely used, including by me!
>
>There are those of us who do not want to run things on Windows if we
>can help it.  (I find Windows a seriously unreliable and frustrating
>operating system, despite its creature comforts which I know and
>love.  I have no interest in owning a Mac - too expensive and weird.)
>We want open-source free software which runs on an open-source
>operating system - most obviously Linux.  We want all the compilers
>etc. to be open-source too.
>