Sure write your patches although keep it separate from the povray source unless your
willing to continue working on your patch, cause that's half of what programming is.
If a patch is added to povray it has to be thoroughly tested before it is officially
added.

/Jens

On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 07:21:12 -0500
"Timothy R. Cook" <tim### [at] scifi-fantasycom> wrote:

> Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> > Unfortunately many people read one book about C and
> > think they are programmers.  They are as wrong as
> > they can be, and the code they write usually
> > demonstrates this very well :-(
> 
> You're missing the distinction between being a
> programmer and being a programmer who writes
> good code.  If someone writes a program, no matter
> how useless, or how badly coded, even just one
> that outputs "Hello world", they are by definition
> a programmer (i.e. "one who makes programs").
> 
> If I had the need for a feature that POV didn't
> have and the ability to throw together a patch
> that allowed me to do what I desired, why would
> I spend more effort than absolutely necessary
> to achieve the effect I want (i.e. make it
> usable by anybody other than myself, with clean
> code, documentation, the works) if all I need
> it for is one or two images?  If someone else
> finds the patch useful, fine, but if it doesn't
> work the way THEY want, who cares?
> -- 
> Tim Cook
> http://empyrean.scifi-fantasy.com
> 
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