Re: [Csnd-dev] [EXTERNAL] [Csnd-dev] will there be another Csound 6 release?

There's only one explicit one that I know about, and it was the one
reported here: https://github.com/csound/csound/issues/1719. A struct type
had changed sometime after the initial release of version 6, as far as I
could tell.

Anyway, I would love to renew my Csound binding development for F#/.NET for
Csound 7, as I stopped the project a while back. I did get it working where
it was running fine for Csound 6, but I think it makes more sense now to
target Csound 7. And it would be great if I could have the bindings ready
for use at the time Csound 7 releases.

Where should I start looking for the new Csound 7 API/header definitions?
At a high-level behavior standpoint, what's changing?

Thanks!

On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 10:37 AM Victor Lazzarini <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Could you list here the 6.0 API breaking changes?
>
> The API for Csound 7 is under review at the moment. 7.0 is slated for
> September, so I suspect we may have an RC by the Summer.
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> Prof. Victor Lazzarini
> Maynooth University
> Ireland
>
> > On 26 Feb 2024, at 14:07, Blake Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
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> > I think it would be nice in the future to separate the API release from
> the major releases. The API in Csound 6 has undergone breaking changes, but
> the major version was not bumped, which breaks the semantic versioning. I
> unfortunately experienced this while writing some bindings for the Csound
> 6, as the documentation was not updated with the breaking changes, and this
> caused a lot of headache until I realized the online documentation was
> wrong. It doesn't seem proper to make breaking changes to the API within a
> major release of Csound unless the API release is itself disconnected from
> the Csound release.
> >
> > Also, I would be interested in making bindings for the Csound 7 API, but
> I'm not sure of the status of the API changes. Specifically, I would be
> making .NET bindings using F#. The bindings could then be used from C#, but
> I would not make higher level wrappers for C# like I would F#.
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 8:57 AM Rory Walsh <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm curious to know if there will be a point release for Csound 6 some
> point before we move to 7? There are some changes to the API that would be
> nice to have available in a public release. Just curious, I don't want to
> be adding workload to anyone. Btw, on a different note, am I right in
> saying that there are currently no build artifacts for MacOS through github
> actions?
>
>