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RtOsc - Realtime safe OSC Messaging
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A realtime safe library for handling OSC messages.
This library is influenced by liblo and libmapper.

Project Goals
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* Provide a simple means of handling OSC messages within an application
* Provide a flexible method of dispatching OSC messages payloads
* Create a C library with C++ wrappers for ease of use
* Allow legacy code to have readable RT safe messaging added on
* Keep networking outside of project scope

Why?
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Well if an application is going to receive nice serialized messages in the OSC format,
then it would be nice if these messages could be dispatched within a realtime
thread.
This is not possible with any observed C OSC implementation, so this is an
attempt to alleviate this issue without creating an entirely hideous API.

Status
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- OSC 1.0 spec consistent implementation of all message types, and bundles
- Lightly tested liblo based implementation verification
- Working C++ based dispatch system
- C++ Serialization System
- C++ Syntax Sugar

Todo
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- Increase test coverage over C++ layer
- Provide standard compliant path/pattern matching algorithms