osc/README.txt

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This is a common-lisp implementation of the Open Sound Control
Protocol, aka OSC. The code should be close to ansi standard, and does
not rely on any external code/ffi/etc+ to do the basic encoding and
decoding of packets. since OSC does not specify a transport layer,
messages can be send using TCP or UDP (or carrier pigeons), however it
seems UDP is more common amongst the programmes that communicate using
the OSC protocol. the osc-examples.lisp file contains a few simple
examples of how to send and recieve OSC via UDP, and so far seems
reasonably compatible with the packets send from/to max-msp, pd,
supercollider and liblo. . .
more details about OSC can be found at . .,
http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/OpenSoundControl/
the current version of this code is avilable using darcs
darcs get http://fo.am/darcs/osc
limitations
- doesnt send nested bundles or timetags later than 'now'
- will most likely crash if the input is malformed
- doesnt do any pattern matching on addresses
- sbcl/cmucl specific float en/decoding
- only supports the type(tag)s specified in the OSC spec
things to do
- address patterns
- liblo like network wrapping
- data checking and error handling
- portable en/decoding of floats -=> ieee754 tests
- doubles and other defacto typetags
- correct en/decoding of timetags
- asdf-installable
changes
2005-03-11
- bundle and blob en/de- coding
2005-03-05
- 'declare' scattering and other optimisations
2005-02-08
- in-package'd
- basic dispatcher
2005-03-01
- fixed address string bug
2005-01-26
- fixed string handling bug
2005-01-24
- sends and receives multiple arguments
- tests in osc-tests.lisp
2004-12-18
- initial version, single args only