On 05/25/2011 11:09 AM, clipka wrote:
> Am 25.05.2011 13:11, schrieb Frederico Lopes:
>> It's in the developpers' plans porting POV-Ray to Android?
>
> There are two answers to that:
>
> Taking your question literally, the answer is plainly "no".
>
> Taking your question to mean "can we expect an Android port of POV-Ray",
> then the answer is "maybe".
>
> It depends on (a) whether there exists a C++ compiler for Android
> (because that's what POV-Ray is written in), and (b) whether there will
> be some POV-Ray + Android enthusiast deciding to write such a port
> (/and/ finishing it ;-)). (Note that a serious demand for such a port is
> not a necessity for it coming to existence.)
>
> Obviously such a port would be - and stay - an unofficial version of
> POV-Ray, as the dev team wouldn't be able to support the
> Android-specific changes (unless of course the aforementioned enthusiast
> would happen to be, or become, member of the dev team).
>
> See the current Mac version of POV-Ray for how it could work out.

well dang ... learn something new every day. I guess never say never is 
the catch phrase in this case ;-)

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