hi,
quite recently, a few comments have been made on the very same subject on pd-list. No, there is no "compatibility library", nor there is any hope of having such in the near future. The available externs which emulate several max/msp objects are scattered here and there, but most of them are not fully compatible.
Firstly, pd-lib.sourceforge.net has been created as the official site for a compatibility project, but it appears that pd-lib project is now abandoned. There are around 20 externals in pd-lib, both maxish, and mspish, but mostly unfinished.
Secondly, I would like to gather compatibility externals myself (if only I had time to do so, and some assurance it is not going to cause major licensing uproar...) Last week I have started a project named `cyclone' at http://suita.chopin.edu.pl/~czaja/miXed/externs/cyclone.html
I intend to put into it any external: 1) tested for full compatibility, 2) generally behaving well, and also such, that 3) may be released under PureData license. Currently, only six msp objects (allpass~, comb~, count~, delay~, linedrive~, and rand~) have made into cyclone.
Thirdly you may find a few other ``max/msp similarity'' externals in ggee, zexy, iemlib, ext13, maxlib, etc...
Krzysztof
João Miguel Pais wrote: ...
- is there any "compatibility library" between pd and max? If so, maybe I
wouldn't have to try to design the abstractions myself, since they would be already made.