[chuck-users] chuck-1.4.0.0 (numchucks) released

[Casper Schipper]

Wow, great work ! Can’t wait to give it a spin, having multiple instances easily is a really big step!
Thank => You !
Casper

 

> On 6 Feb 2018, at 06:58, Ge Wang <ge at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> Greetings!  chuck-1.4.0.0 (numchucks) is available:
> 
>     http://chuck.stanford.edu/
>     http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/
> 
> This is a major release of ChucK, and is mostly a massive code
> refactor -- huge thanks to Jack Atherton for months of groundwork.
> It is now...
> 
> 1) ...much easier to embed ChucK as a lib/module/component into
> other host systems (e.g., Unity... more on that in the coming
> weeks);  (developers looking to embed chuck: the core engine
> can be found in src/core/; the command line host is now in
> src/host/ -- also as an example for new hosts)
> 
> 2) ...possible to support any number of ChucK/VM instances in
> the same address space (hence "numchucks")
> 
> Please see the release notes at the end of this email and, as
> usual, thank you and happy ChucKin!
> 
> Best,
> Spencer, Jack, Ge and the chuck team
> 
> 
> 1.4.0.0
> ---
>  ****************************************************
>  * MAJOR SOURCE REFACTOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
>  * (Thanks Jack Atherton for months of groundwork!) *
>  ****************************************************
>  ********************************************************
>  * NOTE: 1.4.0.0 is a simultaneous release with 1.3.6.0;*
>  * the two are identical except 1.3.6.0 also supports   *
>  * earlier version of OS X before 10.9 (back to 10.5).  *
>  ********************************************************
>  - (added) support for 64-bit on windows
>  - (added) Chuck_External API for including and running ChucK from
>    elsewhere in C++
>            - specify the sample rate
>            - optionally specify the directory that me.dir() should
>              evaluate to; this dir will also be scanned for chugins
>            - optionally use custom callbacks for out and err messages
>              from ChucK
>  - (added) external keyword - for communicating variable values to
>    and from C++ code using Chuck_External API
>  - (developer) ChucK "core" as library, independent of external
>    system audio I/O; now much easier to embed ChucK as a
>    component in other hosts (e.g., command line, plugins, Unity, etc.)
>  - (developer) ChucK "host" (command line app)
>  - (developer) SOURCE: code support for multiple ChucK/VM instances
>  - (developer) SOURCE: one file to include them all (chuck.h)
>  - (developer) c_str() method for Chuck_Strings, so that chugins with a
>    different definition of std::string can still construct their own
>    string
>  - (developer) API for chugin API calls
>              - now API variable must be passed
>              - SHRED variable must also occasionally be passed
>  - (internal) refactored Chuck_String representation to be immutable
>  - (internal) refactored to eliminate global VM, compiler, and env
>    variables
>              - compiler stores a reference to env
>              - compiler stores a reference to vm
>              - vm stores a reference to env
>              - env stores its own top-level types; no more global type
>                variables
>              - DL_Query stores a reference to compiler
>  - (internal) refactored all print statements to use new macros
> 
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