POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Mega-Pov or V3.5? : Re: Mega-Pov or V3.5? Server Time
7 Aug 2024 03:15:39 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Mega-Pov or V3.5?  
From: Tom Melly
Date: 29 Jan 2002 06:28:26
Message: <3c56875a$1@news.povray.org>
"Zeger Knaepen" <zeg### [at] studentkuleuvenacbe> wrote in message
news:3c561a65$1@news.povray.org...
>
> I really don't understand why POV-Ray 3.5 was made.  IMHO it's a waste of
time.  The
> POV-Team should have concentrated on starting with POV-Ray 4.0.
> I mean: POV 4.0 will be a complete rewrite, so everything they do now will
have to be
> redone.  What's the point?
>
> Maybe I'm just tired.  I've been awake for 17 hours :)
>

Hmm, is this a valid arguement? 4.0 may be a rewrite, but I wouldn't imagine
that that means throwing out everything that has proceeded it. More a question
of implementing the algorithms in a different framework.

Besides, what's there to complain about? Jam today and tomorrow suits me
fine....


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