[flext] Flext and jMax

[Thomas Grill]

Oh, i forgot... it would be great if you could summarize why someone would use jMax instead of Pd.
thanks, 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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