14 Aug
2014
14 Aug
'14
8:45 a.m.
On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 21:12:54 -0700 (PDT)
Len Ovens <len(a)ovenwerks.net> wrote:
Concidering OSC has been around for 12 years(v1.0, 17
years since first
implementation), it may have already. The specification is the most
non-specific thing I have ever seen. From the home page it seems to have
not moved at all from 2009 (waiting for funding so 1.1 can be released).
It would seem almost the same thing could be done with an ssh session
using arbitrary strings.
Wow! I hadn't realised it had been around for so long.
In these posts, you described my own concerns pretty accurately. It could
easily become a nightmare of incompatibility. If various bits of kit want to
talk to each other, don't they all need a translation layer with separate
lists for every device they know about?
Also, while I can see that OSC fits very well for setup messages and general
housekeeping, I wonder at the overhead incurred for time-critical messages.
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