POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: POV-CSDL (or Java Binding?): Re: POV-CSDL (or Java Binding?)

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From: Ron Parker
Date: 16 Mar 2000 08:42:57
Message: <38d0e4e1$1@news.povray.org>

On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 22:44:56 +1100, Nigel Stewart wrote:
>
>> > The POV-Team has already officially announced that jpeg input support has
>> > been added to POV-Ray v3.5. Jpeg out will not be added or supported.
>
>	Anyone know the reasoning for this?

The main reasoning is, we didn't want the support nightmare that comes from
someone (tens of thousands of someones) discovering that a lossy format isn't 
the best option for primary output.

>	Not even as a compile-time config option?

No comment. :)

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