> Saving and unpacking the package in $HOME would interfere
> with the installation (which creates a ~/povray-3.6).

        Maybe to clarify Christoph's point here (unless he meant
something else): the installation creates a ~/.povray/3.6 directory.
Note the leading dot which usually "hides" the directory when
listing the content of the home dir.  Downloading and unpacking
the povlinux-3.6.tgz package in a temporary directory is just a
mean to avoid confusion between (i) the ./povray-3.6/ directory
created while unpacking and (ii) the ~/.povray/3.6 directory
created while installing.

>> the Generic Source version
>> should be directly linked from the Unix section

        Presumably you're talking about the current physical
location of the 3.5 source package on the povray FTP server,
ftp://ftp.povray.org/pub/povray/Old-Versions/Official-3.5/Unix/povuni_s.tgz
which is actually a link to the source archive located under
the Linux directory.
        Indeed I consider this a good point.  The generic source
code is, by definition, not limited to GNU/Linux so it makes sense
to place the file directly in the Unix/ directory on the server.
Hopefully this is what will be done for the 3.6 source package.
Note that the package name will also be more explicit (ie it'll
be most likely "povray-3.6.tar.gz").

        - NC

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