"Zeger Knaepen" <zeg### [at] studentkuleuvenacbe> wrote in message
news:3c56a307$1@news.povray.org...
> If I'm wrong about this, then I have no problems whatsoever with POV3.5,
but if that's
> right, I really think starting with POV4.0 would have been a better idea
(and no: I'm not
> telling you what to do, I'm telling you what I would do)
>
> cu!

The POV Team has made it very clear that they wanted to incorporate certain
features (which everybody liked) into POV-Ray in a clean, efficient manner.
To hear them write about it, the code in Mega POV is literally a wasteland
of half-finished patches and undocumented shortcuts.  When they decided to
incorporate these features into the official compile, most of them had to
have their syntax reworked, and have their code rewritten, which is a lot of
work.  They felt that actually getting these features into POV ~first~ was
more important than the C++ rewrite that 4.0 seems to be.  Personally, I'm
just glad I've got any version of POV - Great job, Team!

...Chambers

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