Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Rewrite. No offense to those who work on MegaPOV or the other patches, but
> they indeed all suffer from exactly the same problems the patches that the
> POV-Team had to integrate into 3.5.  The current patches hardly get finished
> or bugfixed very well.  Don't expected anybody in the POV-Team is willing to
> repeat the same mistake again by reusing code from patches that don't work
> and then take years to get fixed.

I understand your point and it is probably correct for most patches,
mostly because the main goal while writing them is an actual need for a
feature, not a well tested and structured extension.  None the less it is
surely wrong to regard all patches equally - quite a few bugfix patches
from MegaPOV 1.0 were already added to official POV and there are various
feature enhancements in MegaPOV with a similar simplicity.

Of course this has nothing to do with the origianl topic of this thread -
it is definitely not a good idea to start adding new features to the
official POV-Ray 3.5 for a new release, this way there would probably
never be a new version - those who need new features should go for an
unofficial version.

Christoph    

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