Chris Cason wrote:
> 
> I wasn't aware that frequency of releases had become a software quality metric.
> 

It has not for me. I believe POV-Ray to be very high quality, which is 
why I'm still here. I believe this even more after having recently been 
forced[1] to use another renderer to get a descent image of a model I 
had created.

I would describe POV-Ray as, "The DOCUMENTED free renderer without the 
overly pedantic text interface."

However, the slow development of POV-Ray leaves me concerned that this 
quality program (or at least, a good deal of the community around it) 
may one day disappear. I love POV-Ray, but I feel like an IE user - the 
problems the program does have[2] are GOING to be there for the 
foreseeable future. Meanwhile, others are steadily marching towards 
greater speed, integration with modelers, and other things about which I 
don't care a lot, but others do.

  -Shay

[1] By my own mistake or a bug in POV-Ray. I'm not 100% certain yet, but 
I'm leaning towards bug. Pixie rendered the model without problems.

[2] ie "Pass by reference" bug.

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