Great news!!!! Congratulations!! Thanks a lot for this!! :)))) Em sex, 22 de fev de 2019 às 06:35, Jakob Laue <[email protected]> escreveu:
> Congratulations and thank you for your work!! > > *Gesendet:* Freitag, 22. Februar 2019 um 03:24 Uhr > *Von:* "Alexandre Torres Porres" <[email protected]> > *An:* [email protected] > *Betreff:* [PD] [PD-announce] Mission Completed: Cyclone 0.3 stable > release is out! > Howdy, please allow me to share a rather personal and detailed report to > this dear list about this release: The Cyclone Library (a set of Pure Data > objects cloned from Max/MSP) is finally upgraded to version 0.3! The main > goal of Cyclone 0.3 was to update it to Max 7! Max 8 is out now and there > are minor updates that could be included in cyclone, which may be ported in > a possible future 0.4 release. Cyclone 0.3 also provide numerous fixes, > several new objects and a newly written documentation! > > In the last release (cyclone 0.3 release candidate 1), we noted how we > finished updating our last object to Max 7! The catch was that we still > needed to update [comment], which won't be updated to Max 6+. Now it's > been updated but not yet fully compliant to Max 5 - nonetheless it's > "acceptable" and further work can be taken care in future 0.3.x releases. > Anyhow, there were also other updates and fixes and the thing is, with what > we have now, I just feel comfortable and happy to state: "*Mission > Completed: Cyclone 0.3 stable release is out!*". > > This took 3 years. In fact, this release happens in the exact day of the > 3rd anniversary of our repository. I was pretty clueless on how to code > externals when we started and I still struggle a lot - even though I was > able to learn a thing or two in the meantime :) -, this is to say that if > it weren't for my colleagues Derek and Matt, nothing of this would be > possible! I feel I have to praise and thank them (which I can't do enough) > as I don't want to outshine them (since I'm the usual spokesman of the > project). We made a great team! My limitations actually came in handy as I > could just deal with what I could, which was the most tedious and manual > labor that this project needed, like revising every object, looking for > bugs, cleaning things up, dealing with the less complicated stuff while I > learned how to code and etc. Then after a lot of attention, I could deliver > a good briefing so they could help me fix the more hardcore stuff without > all that hassle. > > After this long period, it's also noticeable to say we lost steam. I can > only speak for myself and I'm now taking care of my own library (thanks to > all I've learned dealing with cyclone, I must say). I don't know much and > can't promise that cyclone will keep receiving the same attention from now > on, but don't expect it to be abandoned ;) The project is obviously open > for collaboration and any help is welcome. We actually had a very good and > recent contribution from Diego Barrios Romero, who made it possible for > anyone to compile cyclone now as a single library! Apparently he needed > this to load cyclone with libpd more conveniently. Further cyclone releases > may also bring the option of a single compiled binary. Instructions on how > to compile cyclone as a single library and more about the project in genera > can be found here: > https://github.com/porres/pd-cyclone/blob/cyclone0.3/README.md Also check > the changelog for a full list of changes: > https://github.com/porres/pd-cyclone/blob/cyclone0.3/documentation/extra_files/CHANGELOG.txt > > Cyclone is now available for the main architectures via Pd (Help => Find > Externals) - it might take a while until it shows up in the system. You can > also get it from here: > https://github.com/porres/pd-cyclone/releases/tag/cyclone0.3 > > For last, I can't finish this message without thanking the Pd Community in > general (specially Dan and IOhannes for being big players and great > leaders) but mostly Miller Puckette, of course, without whom there's be no > Max or Pd (and therefore no cyclone). We obviously need to also thank the > original author of Cyclone, Krzysztof Czaja, who created this important > library for Pd! Hans Christof Steiner needs to be honored for maintaining > this library and keeping it in Pd Extended for a long time, and later Fred > Jan Kraan was also very important to start fixing and updating this library > after so long in the cyclone 0.2 releases. > > Cheers > _______________________________________________ Pd-announce mailing list > [email protected] https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-announce > _______________________________________________ [email protected] > mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > -- Esteban Viveros www.estebanviveros.com
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