Am 09.09.2010 08:57, schrieb Techdir:
>>    A "reference object" feature has been suggested, but probably won't be
>> implemented in the near future. http://bugs.povray.org/task/87
>>
>> --
>>                                                            - Warp
>
> Is that a matter of available time with the current developers, or technical
> complexity?

Pretty much both actually, and then some.

Top priority ATM is to complete v3.70 for a release proper, which has 
two consequences:

- Most of the developers dedicate their available time to fixing bugs 
and re-implementing stuff that had been temporarily disabled for the 
transition to multi-threaded rendering.

- The developers are quite reluctant to include features with a high 
risk of breaking stuff in a way that would be difficult to track down or 
even notice.

A "reference object" feature is guesstimated to take considerable 
effort, and also dig deep into the bowels of POV-Ray where unexpected 
side effects may be plenty.

Of course, the sooner we can get v3.70 out of the door, the sooner we 
might be heading for a v3.71 or v4.0 that might be aiming for new 
features again - so maybe you'd like to invest a bit of time and effort 
to help with v3.70 ;-).

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