[PD-dev] converting OSCx to a template library

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On 10/19/2012 10:45 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> On 10/19/2012 03:02 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> here's 2 abstractions that implement OSCx's [sendOSC] and [dumpOSC] in terms
> of vanilla/mrpeach objects.
> 
> [OSCroute] cannot really be implemented in vanilla due to it's multi-outlet
> nature. otoh, [routeOSC] is compatible with [OSCroute] (apart from the name).

That's good to have, please post and maintain that somewhere, like maybe in
the 'osc' lib.  But its not yet a replacement because at the very least its
not deployed.

.hc