[flext] Flext and jMax

[Thomas Grill]

Hi Maurizio,
thanks for making me aware jMax is still existent!
I'm not sure if there are any remaining traces in the flext source code, still documenting my efforts to support jMax when it was being developed at IRCAM.
As for the port to current jMax you should be aware that i'm the only developer and i have no free capacities to work on flext other than fixing urgent problems.
But as flext supports only a subset of both the Pd and Max APIs which to my knowledge is practically the same as in jMax, i don't see any major problems with that.
There is one thing that might be problematic: I remember jMax to be Multi-CPU aware, which also Max5 is to some point. This is very hard to include into flext - in fact the Max5 port is using a thread lock to avoid problems. 
Are you already (very) familiar with the way how flext deals with the different platforms supported. A good starting point might be flprefix.h. Huh, i just realized there's still a definition of FLEXT_SYS_JMAX....
well, all the best,
gr~~~

Am 08.06.2010 um 16:56 schrieb Maurizio De Cecco:

> Hallo,
> 
> i am the current jMax Phoenix developer and maintainer, and i am wondering if
> the flext community would be interested in adapting (or helping me adapting) flext to work also with jMax.
> 
> It shouldn't be an enormous work, because i am developing a source level
> compatibility layer on top of jMax to compile puredata object sources for jMax (subject to a number of
> reasonable limitations).
> 
> As of today, i know almost nothing about flext; to start, can anybody tell me
> how the border between flext and pd/MAX works ? Using macros, or a mapping software layer of some kind
> ?
> 
> On the jMax side it wouldn't be a problem to adapts things to make this easier,
> like adding a dedicated object loader or similar facilities.
> 
> Maurizio De Cecco
> 
> PS: for those who do not know: jMax was an internal project in Ircam designed
> to be the next generation Max for Ircam needs. It was released under a free licence in 1999 and the project
> stopped a couple of years later.
> I was a member of the original developers team, i left Ircam for mandrakesoft
> in 1999. A couple of years ago i decided to restart the development of jMax under the jMax Phoenix name, for
> my coding fun.
> You can find more information at http://www.jmax-phoenix.org/ or take a look to the Linux
> Audio Conference 2009 proceedings.
> 
> 
> 
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