Nigel Stewart <nig### [at] nigelscom> wrote:
:> >   Povray is NOT a windows program.

: 	It isn't?  I wonder what I installed on my Windows NT box
: 	then...  A forgery?  A fake?

  Nope, povray is an ANSI-C program. It has been ported to several platforms,
like Windows, but that doesn't make it a Windows program. The binary you
installed is a windows compile of the program, but povray itself is not a
windows program.

: 	Lets get serious.  When POV came out, the command line
: 	was the standard thing, DOS, UNIX, lowest common 
: 	denominator.  Now we have a Windows GUI, a Mac GUI,
: 	but we're still running around talking about portability.
: 	
: 	That's silly.

  Nope, it's not silly. Many people are using povray in a wide variety of
platforms (which support or don't graphical user interfaces).

: 	It's possible to write platform independent code in 
: 	C++ - but it's not enforced.  The same philosophy should
: 	apply to POV.

  No it shouldn't. Povray has to be able to compile in any platform which
has the proper compiler. Portability is a very serious issue.
  I understand why most windows users just can't understand how someone likes
to use something else than windows and graphical programs.

: 	Things like POV-CSDL - grafting an interpreted C'ish
: 	kind of thing onto POV - goes to show the extreme
: 	measures we'd need to enforce the portablity of
: 	pov scenes

  Pov scenes and the povray source code are two completely different things.
Don't mix them.

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