Thomas wrote:
> 
> I  know, I just like both :). But IMHO network rendering is a feature that is
missing
> from pov, and yes I know it is next to impossible to implent it with the current
code
> and nobody, including me, was able to get pvmpov running on win32.

Why not?  I never tried it until now, but i don't know about any problems?

> 
> I don't know about the amiga and I'm not really sure about the Mac but it should be
> possible to write an abstraction layer that hides all the platform dependent stuff
> from the core. 

Surely, but what do you gain with that, there still needs to be a lot of
code written for every platform and it can still be extremely difficult to
get all the different versions work together.  

> Pov does that at the moment as well, but only for a few minor things,
> just look in the platform specific file in source/your_platform.
> 

There is nothing but the user interface that is specific to the platform,
of course some minimal interface is always needed.

Christoph

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