Since I'm getting a more and more questions about the
OpenGL stuff, and in the interests of helping make sure
the code is as portable as possible, I will be making
the patch's source code available later today (Not that anyone
couldn't have had it just for the asking, but I want
to get a nice documented .zip file up on my website).

Ray Gardener
Daylon Graphics Ltd.
"Heightfield modeling perfected"
http://www.daylongraphics.com


"Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
news:3EE### [at] gmxde...
>
>
> ingo wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > To be honest, I realy wonder why this question, in different forms, has
> > come up a few times now as a reaction to a first try / initial test. As
> > Ray has stated in several other postings, you all have read, he is fully
> > aware of the fact that POV-Ray is / should be / stay a platform
> > independent piece of software. And if, for some reason, it is not
platform
> > independent, I'll hope someone will jump in and help him in making it
so.
>
> I am pretty sure everyone who stated concerns about the portability in
> this thread is aware that it is possible to program platform independently
> with OpenGL but this does not mean any OpenGL code is portable per
> definition.
>
> I would suggest to test the portability soon while developing the patch
> because otherwise what you describe as 'jumping in' could be a pretty lot
> of work.  The fact that quite some people mentioned their concerns seems
> an indication that there is quite some interest in such a patch but it is
> pretty unlikely that when not being suited for all platforms it would make
> it into official POV-Ray or MegaPOV.
>
> Christoph
>
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