Re: [Csnd-dev] [EXTERNAL] [Csnd-dev] Csound API version 6 vs version 7

Thank you, Victor. That gives me enough of an idea that it's not wasted
time working on the bindings for Csound 6 at the moment.

On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 4:04 AM Victor Lazzarini <[email protected]>
wrote:

> We don't know. It's not going to be 6 months, but maybe a year or two. At
> the moment we're not making much progress because it's only about two or
> three of us who are trying to push through.
>
> Prof. Victor Lazzarini
> Maynooth University
> Ireland
>
> On 2 Jul 2023, at 22:24, Blake Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 
> > The API for 7 will definitely change.
>
> In drastic ways?
>
> What is the general approximate timeframe of Csound 7? 6 months? 1 year? 3
> years?
>
> On Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 5:21 PM Victor Lazzarini <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> The API for 7 will definitely change. Whether it's worth doing the
>> bindings or not may depend on your timescale needs. We do not have a
>> schedule for the release of Csound 7, and 6.x is currently the stable
>> version.
>>
>> Prof. Victor Lazzarini
>> Maynooth University
>> Ireland
>>
>> > On 2 Jul 2023, at 19:47, SUBSCRIBE CSOUND-DEV Anonymous <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > *Warning*
>> >
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>> >
>> > I saw in the following linked comment that it was mentioned that Csound
>> 6 is only getting bugfixes and that Csound 7 is being work on and the API
>> will be changed.
>> >
>> > https://github.com/csound/csound/issues/1595#issuecomment-1053581096
>> >
>> > I am currently writing .NET bindings for the Csound 6 API. How much
>> will the API change in version 7 from version 6? Is it worth writing new
>> bindings for Csound 6 right now? Will it be relatively easy to update the
>> bindings to Csound 7 (i.e., will the changes be drastic)? When is Csound 7
>> and the corresponding new API anticipated to be released?
>> >
>> > In other words, should I continue writing bindings for Csound 6 or just
>> wait for Csound 7?
>> >
>> > Thank you!
>>
>