[PD-dev] converting OSCx to a template library

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On 10/19/2012 03:03 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> On 10/19/2012 06:08 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>> Any objections?  Shall I go with lazy consensus on this one?
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On 10/16/2012 07:17 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> I was tired of dealing with a cryptic ./configure, so I converted OSCx
>>> to be based on the Library Template.  THis is currently in the
>>> pd-extended/0.43 branch.
>>>
>>> Anyone have any objections of me removing the old OSCx and replacing it
>>> with the 'oscx' library?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> why would you want to keep OSCx alive?
> i would rather entirely remove this buggy and un-maintained (as in: upstream,
> not within PdX) library from any distribution.

Its still widely used and still the easiest way to use OSC, albeit in a
limited way.  If someone makes comparably easy way to use OSC, then I see no
reason to keep this one.

> and i don't get the point of replacing "OSCx" by "oscx".

Every other library folder in externals/ is all lower case.

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