POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : POV-Ray promotion : Re: POV-Ray promotion Server Time
2 Oct 2025 20:37:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV-Ray promotion  
From: yesbird
Date: 2 Oct 2025 07:09:01
Message: <68de5d4d$1@news.povray.org>
On 01/10/2025 01:28, Chris Cason wrote:
> I never said anything about RTR. Specifically, I mentioned 
> "platform-independent raytracing" - this is the entire point, it's 
> independent of GPU or API. Anyone using it does not need to care what 
> the target system is equipped with.

I was confused by mentioned 'animations', now I see that it has no
relation to RTR, sorry.

> I'm not sure of where/when those discussions were, but, given I have 
> worked on this codebase for 30 years, I think I have a pretty good idea 
> of what's possible and how much effort is involved. Basically if I want 
> to do it, I can do it and the effort is not an issue.

Sure, no doubt.

> I have a (commercial, but affordable) candidate I would like to use, but the one
thing that is bugging me is it would require dropping support for NNTP (unless I want
to write a plugin for it, which I don't).

May I ask you about details of your choice ?
I like how Discourse (not mix with Discord :)) works and already tried
it for 14 days: https://www.discourse.org/

I can be indexed and has NNTPplugin:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/sync-discourse-with-nntp/58602

But migration will be painful, agree.
-- 
YB


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