[PD] Cyclone issues update

[Fred Jan Kraan]

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