[OSC_dev] Application Profiles

[Nicholas J Humfrey]

On 21 Dec 2008, at 16:31, Andy W. Schmeder wrote:
>
> On Dec 21, 2008, at 2:38 AM, Nicholas J Humfrey wrote:
>
>>> I am profoundly sorry, but #reply is not a valid OSC name
>>
>> Perhaps that was a deliberate decision to use a reserved character to
>> make it part of the protocol layer, rather than an application.
>
>
> That is correct, though I now think it was a mistake.  It is better to
> not disturb the protocol for the purpose of adding these things.  '#'
> needs to stay reserved for the moment.

Sorry, can you clarify that please? - you are saying we should be  
avoiding using your Query System and #reply?


> I'm not sure when it was added to liblo, but I didn't have anything to
> do with that... :)

That was Steve Harris :)


> FWIW, Open Sound World (http://osw.sourceforge.net) implements most of
> what is described in that paper.  We were able to build a reflection
> API on top of it so that runtime patching operations and object state
> taking place in the OSW server are mirrored in an object structure in
> a remote python interpreter.

Cool :)



nick.