[FM Discuss] can i upload .csd files?

[joachim heintz]

a .csd file is an xml-like text file. it can be opened by any text  
editor. but Csound recognizes these kind of file and can run them  
immediately.
they are much smaller than images. this is the file which i wanted to  
upload and could not:
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as you see, it has less than 4 kb, and this is the usual size. i just  
produced a really unusual large file, with tons of widgets, and this  
has 180 kb.

perhaps i can explain the reason why i asked. we want to include small  
examples in the usual way as formatted text, like here:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Csound/CSOUNDLANGUAGE

these examples are in "plain" csound, without any wdgets. but we would  
like to give more examples just by a link. either more complex  
examples which are too long for putting them in the text, or examples  
in QuteCsound, with widgets (they have their own xml tags and are very  
ugly to read). then we could refer quickly, having a readable text but  
also a good example collection.

best regards -

	joachim



Am 21.07.2010 um 04:43 schrieb Lachlan Musicman:

> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 23:37, adam <adam at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> i didnt enable this because i thought it would be a security issue to
>> ahve people uploading all sorts of files...any advice on how we  
>> should
>> deal with this? do i alter the mimetypes to allow specific  
>> filetypes or
>> do we encourage people to upload content somewhere else and link to  
>> it?
>
> I'm not sure about the security implications of csd files, but it can
> also be a drain on bandwidth, hard drive and backup resources for an
> org with no money....
>
> Out of interest, where else could it go? While I know that the
> internet archive is one place, since that is censored in some
> countries it may not be ideal.
>
> I don't mind either way, so long as it's a consistent policy. Given
> tight resources, I would suggest that big media, blobs etc, get stored
> elsewhere - youtube, last.fm, soundcloud, internet archive - is
> probably the best bet at the moment, with a view to changing it should
> resources become more available.
>
> cheers
> L.
>
>>
>> adam
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 15:22 +1000, Lachlan Musicman wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, July 20, 2010, joachim heintz <jh at joachimheintz.de>  
>>> wrote:
>>>> hi floss admins -
>>>>
>>>> for the floss csound manual, it would be good if we could  
>>>> upload .csd files and link to them via the "insert File Link"  
>>>> button.
>>>> if i try it, i get the message:
>>>> "Cannot upload csd Files. Permission denied."
>>>
>>> I'd imagine it's just a mimetype/allowed file type issue. should be
>>> easy enough to solve.
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