[PD] Re: [PD-dev] We've got to undo the MIDI revolution! - Where isOSC?!

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Mar 21, 2006, at 7:23 PM, Martin Peach wrote:

> day 5 wrote:
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>> On Mar 16, 2006, at 12:43 PM, B. Bogart wrote:
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>>> In fact I think the whole OSC external thing needs to be rethought.
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>> why not just implement a wrapper to liblo ?
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> Investigating further, I see that liblo can only send via UDP and  
> UNIX sockets, not TCP. It handles its own sockets internally just  
> like libOSC (the basis for sendOSC and dumpOSC in pd).
> In pd, netsend and netreceive can do TCP as well. OSC is supposed  
> to work on 'any' protocol, but AFAIK it hasn't been implemented on  
> MIDI or RS232 or USB, probably for lack of interest. At least a TCP  
> implementation would be useful for those who need guaranteed  
> delivery of packets.

CCRMA at Stanford University has a limited version of OSC on serial  
called dumpOSCSerial.  I never found the code, just hte binary.   
Ideally, there would be a Pd OSC lib that had no transport built in.   
Then you could choose your transport.  That makes things much more  
flexible.

.hc