[PD] steep filter?

[volker böhm]

On 27 Mar 2009, at 01:41, João Pais wrote:
>> hm, i'm certainly not against this idea, as i'm not opposed to  
>> sharing what i've done, if it is interesting for others.
>> but i don't use pd-extended myself a a lot and actually i don't  
>> know the process of "getting externals into the system".
>
> that is quite easy: contact directly H-C Steiner to get a svn  
> account, then upload your code - or ask him more about how to do it.
>
>
>> also, i don't know about the policy of pd-extended or where it's  
>> aiming at,
>> but i guess that the externals that get in there, must have  
>> somehow proven to be useful to many users.
>
> ahhh, there's no policy. anyone who manifests interest in joining  
> in joins in, I guess. there's also no admittance test, so everyone  
> just puts in the code he wants (sometimes even buggy code). which  
> makes the whole a thing not really totally übersichtlich (one of  
> the GSC projects was to organize and catalog the externals on pd-ext).
> but pd-ext is quite used (only hardcore people/code developers  
> prefer pd-van), and it's the easiest way to make the code available  
> to everyone. of course it can happen that no one notices it's  
> there, because there are around 2000+ files in the /extra folder of  
> pd-ext.

"not really totally übersichtlich", yeah i had that impression, too :)
anyway, thanks for your comments, joão. i'll think about it.
volker.