Hi Christoph

What you write is true without any doubt. You may see from the whole package
that it was not made for
beeing wide spread from first moment, but rather fpr private use.
Then I decided to give it to others, too.

What could be done ...
Following what ABX said in his post I think its not even necessary for a
first step to rewrite the whole thing in another language (I don't know).

It would be possible that someone who knows
- a bit about unix and how to start POV-Ray on UNIX/LINUX
to make a RenderAgent "for Unix/Linux. Its not much, a bit simplified its
just that the renderagent waits on a "JOB"-File, starts POV-Ray with these
informations, and after POV_Ray is ready, renames that file to ".rdy"
("ready"). The rest is done from SMPOV.

The SMPOV-interprocess-communication  is based on a very
simple -cleartext-file-based- protocoll, it should work between any
platforms so long SMPOV iself (as a first step) would be running on a
windows 32 bit OS.

If someone is intrested, I would sent all necessary informations on what
files to react etc. for a RenderAgent, as well as the source code of the
original programm to that person. If you are ABX want to make a try, or at
least take a look on things, I would do that.

regards,
--Theo

"Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmxde> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Theo Gottwald * * * wrote:
> > I decided, that I will even share the sourcecode with people who can
proof
> > their ability to make implementations on other platforms. (So i don't
sent
> > the sourcecode to just anyone who asks, but to ppl. who I think that
have
> > proofed their qualifikation (with other projects for example).
> >
> > So far noone asked for that :-). Myself I don't plan to code in other
> > environment then windows,
> > [...]
>
> You should notice that you deny yourself the possibility to reach a lot
> of users, especially for render farms and distributed rendering in
> general unix systems are extremely widely used.
>
> And you will have a very hard time to find someone to port your program
> to other platforms in a proprietary programming language.
>
> And just in case this is not clear: you of course don't need to use a
> different OS to generate a portable program.
>
> Christoph
>
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