[PD] Cyclone issues update

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

> There may not be very much patches, but they are more likely
> than Max/MSP 4.6 patches nowadays.

still trying to get this, I ask, well, don't old max patches still open in
newer versions of Max? cheers

2015-12-08 17:20 GMT-02:00 Fred Jan Kraan <fjkraan at xs4all.nl>:

> Hi All,
>
> Thanks for all the comments.
>
> The original goal of cyclone was to create a collection of Max/MSP
> objects for PureData. This was in the 2000s area, Max/MSP version 4.6.
> Since then MAX evolved its architecture and file format to something
> that is incompatible with PureData. Compatibility is limited to a very
> old version of Max/MSP.
>
> The cyclone objects exist for twelve years, and any patches created then
> can still be loaded into a modern Pd. There may not be very much
> patches, but they are more likely than Max/MSP 4.6 patches nowadays. For
> me this makes backward compatibility more important than with an
> obsolete Max/MSP version.
>
> The cross section of both goals means no functional objects can be
> changed in a way that makes them backward-incompatible. New objects can
> be added and bugs can be fixed. Backward-incompatible objects should go
> into another library. It is for more or less this purpose I started the
> pd-playground¹. So there the average2~ object will go.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Fred Jan
>
> ¹https://github.com/electrickery/pd-playground
>
>
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