On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 15:53:44 -0400, TonyB wrote:
>I was just wondering if by frenetically adding so many features to the
>SuperPatch we could be slowing down the release of Official 3.5.

Speaking as the creator of the superpatch and not as a member of the
POV-Team, I would say the answer is no.  I sent Chris Young a copy of
the superpatch source sometime between the superpatch 3.1a release and
the superpatch 3.1e release to use as he saw fit for 3.5.  As far as I 
know there has been no effort to incorporate the minor[1] changes that 
were in the 3.1e sp release and I expect that the 3.1g sp release will 
also not be considered for inclusion in 3.5.  I wouldn't want it any other 
way.  The superpatch will almost certainly always be a step ahead of the 
official version in terms of features.  That's the whole idea, after all.

Something else I should mention, because I've seen misinformation here 
and there recently, is that 3.5 is not just a rubberstamped official 
superpatch.  Go back and read Chris Young's "plans for the future" 
document and you'll see that the superpatch was just a convenient 
evaluation vehicle for a number of patches, which were to be accepted
or rejected on their individual merits and depending on the permission
of their original authors.  The final 3.5 will probably bear as much 
resemblance to the superpatch as the superpatch does to UVPOV: they'll 
both have features 3.1 doesn't, and some of the new stuff will be in 
both, but neither will be a subset of the other.

[1] minor compared to what I sent, not compared to 3.1a.  For example, 
the pigment isosurface stuff and the lighting changes are in what I sent
Chris but not in 3.1a.

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