[PD] Cyclone 0.3 Pre Alpha (mac compiled included)

Alexandre Torres Porres porres at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 18:38:11 CEST 2016


Seems like I screwed up and the code is not buildable - the last [zl]
commit ruined it. So please try the compiled version for mac I made
vailable and hold on for a fix,

sorry

2016-09-28 0:27 GMT-03:00 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>:

> Howdy;
>
> It's been over 7 months that active further development for cyclone has
> been abandoned. I had then forked cyclone to my repo https://github.com/
> porres/pd-cyclone and started working on a possible update for it. I've
> had the help of very nice people, mainly Derek Kwan and Matt Barber.
> Together, we've been hard at work updating cyclone mainly to include
> functionalities from newer versions of max. This week, our paper submission
> about working on this has been accepted to be presented at PdCon. On it, we
> say we should have a beta release by november (at the time of PdCon). But I
> thought I could share a "Pre Alpha" release for those who want to take a
> peek and share some feedback/thoughts.
>
> The main goal we're pursuing is to update objects in cyclone to include
> new functionalities that were introduced in Max5+ versions, after taking
> care of 47 updated objects to this date, we only have about 8 to deal with
> and complete this very huge task. An oficial test release is to be made
> when we're closer to the final count. Besides that, several new objects
> have been included or are in the final process of being complete, plus a
> vast list of bug fixes.
>
> Also, the documentation has been completely rewritten and redesigned from
> scratch. There were countless issues with it, so a radical rebuild seemed
> like the best to do, cause it also helped in the process of finding bugs
> and missing features from newer versions of max. This is surely what needed
> more work and energy in this process, and is still incomplete. I still need
> to finish working on about a dozen of them, revise it at least one more
> time, include a meta and related objects.
>
> Note that this is a "PRE ALPHA" release - thus, it's prior to any formal
> test release, things are still under quite active development and not
> feature complete or ready for consumption by anyone other than software
> developers in official terms. But I'd just like to bring some attention to
> this and discuss this work with the list.
>
> so, here it is, the 1st milestone: https://github.com/porres/pd-
> cyclone/releases
>
> I can only compile for mac, sorry, so I have that in there besides the
> source code. I hope at least linux users can easily build this.
>
> For more info on this project, please check the readme:
> https://github.com/porres/pd-cyclone/blob/master/README.md
>
> And the changelog https://github.com/porres/pd-cyclone/wiki/cyclone-0.3-
> changlelog
>
> cheers
>
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