POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.pov4.discussion.general : Suggestion fora new feature in POV-Ray : Re: Suggestion fora new feature in POV-Ray Server Time
8 May 2024 22:31:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Suggestion fora new feature in POV-Ray  
From: Vincent Le Chevalier
Date: 24 Jan 2008 08:40:11
Message: <4798953b$1@news.povray.org>

>> Your IDE/software/whatever is not so much really intending to
>> interact with povray as it is supposed to interact with povray SDL
>> files.  What use is for povray to come with 5 different
>> editors/IDEs to suit someone needs?
> 
> Any developer can correct me but I think the more tightly embedded a
>  application is into another the better.

At the very least, this seems contrary to the philosophy behind 
Unix/Linux command-line tools, where the goal as far as I know is to 
develop specialized tools very good at what they do, then chain them 
together according to what you need.

-- 
Vincent


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