[OSC_dev] liboscqs

[Jamie Bullock]

On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 17:49 +0100, Gaspard Bucher wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Nicholas J Humfrey <njh at aelius.com> wrote:
> > I have just remembered about Martin Habets' liboscqs which is build on
> > top of liblo:
> >
> > Schema for OpenSound Control Query System
> > http://liboscqs.sourceforge.net/schema/OSCQS-schema-0.0.1.pdf
> >
> > Oh so much duplication of effort!
> >
> > We need to get this sorted out once and for all.
> >
> >
> > nick.
> 
> Incredible, it's almost the same as what we have come up to !
> 
> I will have a closer reading and maybe all the "oscplanet" thing will
> just be "OSCQS" with zeroconf. I really do not want to reinvent the
> wheel.

Neither do I. I had no idea about this actually, and I even suggested
virtually the same name: OSC/SQ vs OSCQS -- uncanny.

Re: zeroconf, their website says "liboscqs supports Service Discovery
using either Howl or Spread". I can't tell from a cursory glance at the
API how far they got with that. Maybe Martin can clarify the status of
this?

Anyhow, we shouldn't abandon our efforts here. Martin's work seems to be
closely based on the original Schmeder/Wright paper (2004), I can
certainly see room for further building/honing of the protocol taking
account of some of the ideas recently discussed. 

Seasons greetings!

Jamie

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