Francois LE COAT wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> 
> Tim Cook wrote :
>> Be glad they're releasing anything at all, for starters.  If they were 
>> being paid, they might be obligated to do certain things.  But they're 
>> not.  Got a problem with it?  Write your own raytracer.
> 
> I'm not speaking about my personal interest, but about general policy.
> I'm supporting POV for more than 10 years now. Specially on ATARI
> platforms. Do you know that Windows is *the* latest non Unix OS ?
> Why should it be promoted rather than any other OS ?
> 
> Regards,
> 

> Author of Eureka 2.12 (2D Graph Describer, 3D Modeller)
> http://eureka.atari.org

It's not being promoted.  The POV-Team is focusing on fixing bugs 
related to the new feature (multithreading).  To minimize distractions 
from this, they have decided to focus on a single platform for the 
development.

They could do source releases and focus on implementing the changes only 
in the generic code versions; however, due to past experiences the 
POV-Team has decided that time-limited binaries better suit their needs 
(and the community's).

Since they must do a binary release, on a single platform, they simply 
chose the platform with the greatest number of users.

...Chambers

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