Warp wrote:
>   Which came first, COM or POV-Ray GUI extensions?

COM was originally OLE, which was around in Win3 days. Certainly by Win98 it 
was a well-established technology.

The only reason I said "unknown reason" is that the windows interface only 
works on Windows. The reason for using INI files instead of the INI API is 
portability, I'd expect. That wouldn't be an issue with COM and the Windows 
editor/interface thing.

I don't know enogh about the history of COM and the Windows port of POV-Ray 
to know whether COM could do what the GUI extensions needed when they were 
written.

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