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

The host API has not changed yet but François Pinot is working on a proposal and we'll discuss it here. API users should play an important part on the redesign.

The module API is changing and there is a PR open on this, #1852. Changes are documented there.

Btw, in response to that issue you opened, I did eventually update the API docs for 6.18.

best
Prof. Victor Lazzarini
Maynooth University
Ireland

On 31 Mar 2024, at 18:24, Blake Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote:


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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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.
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> 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#.
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> On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 8:57 AM Rory Walsh <[email protected]<mailto:[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?