[OSC_dev] Application Profiles

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

On Sun, December 21, 2008 17:38, Andy W. Schmeder wrote:
> On Dec 21, 2008, at 6:56 AM, salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:
>
>> Right. However I don't think anybody is actively maintaining libOSC,
>> are
>> they ?
>>
>> The version I have is from 1998.
>
> libOSC is used in a few of the CNMAT objects for MaxMSP, e.g.
> OpenSoundControl and OSC-route.  (see http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/downloads)
>
> It may have grown slightly by accretion since then but I don't think
> it has fundamentally changed.  OpenSoundControl has been extended for
> better support of blobs, timetags and the T,F,N typetags, but that is
> all that I know of.
>
>
> For new projects I would recommend one of the other OSC libraries.
> liblo and oscpack come to mind, though there are several others that
> are also high quality.  Or, write your own from scratch, its not that
> hard. :)
>
> Also I don't think anyone at CNMAT really has time to support the
> libOSC code right now.
>
>

I have heard good things about liblo, unfortunately I dont have time to
replace libOSC with liblo right now, so I am stuck with what I have. I
looked at oscpack, but it is C++ and LiVES is written in C.


Cheers,
Gabriel.
http://lives.sourceforge.net