[PD] consolidate backward- and MaxMSP compatibility in Cyclone (was: Purpose of Cyclone)

[Dan Wilcox]

What about versioning? If people *have* to have older compatibility, then why can’t they just run an older version of cyclone? Newer development can take place on the current version and you can clearly note api changes/updates in a CHANGELOG. Say tag cyclone right now as version 1.0.0 and all further development is version 2.0.*

This seems to work fine for all sorts of software libraries and deken should make it much more possible in pd.

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> On Dec 22, 2015, at 7:06 PM, pd-list-request at lists.iem.at wrote:
> 
> From: Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu <mailto:msp at ucsd.edu>>
> Subject: Re: [PD] consolidate backward- and MaxMSP compatibility in Cyclone (was: Purpose of Cyclone)
> Date: December 22, 2015 at 4:46:29 PM MST
> To: Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com <mailto:porres at gmail.com>>
> Cc: "pd-list at lists.iem.at <mailto:pd-list at lists.iem.at>" <pd-list at lists.iem.at <mailto:pd-list at lists.iem.at>>
> 
> 
> If I may make a suggestion - when I find that an object isn't terribly
> well designed (for example my own qlist :) I make another one, with another
> name, that does the job better (text).
> 
> cheers
> Miller
> 
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 08:51:03PM -0200, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
>> Well, newer patches with newer functionalities not working in older
>> versions is how things go anyway, right? Vanilla 0-46 patches don't run in
>> 0.45 and so on... there's no way around that I guess.
>> 
>>> the dual outlet layout with message left and
>>> signal right is rather unusual.
>> 
>> But I think it's also simpler and more straightforward than introducing
>> flags, arguments and all. It might be unusual, but there are already some
>> objects with similar design, I actually thought of that because of
>> [sampstoms~] and [mstosamps~] - it'd be basically the same design.
>> 
>> cheers

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