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From: clipka
Date: 10 Dec 2012 13:34:08
Message: <50c62b20$1@news.povray.org>
Am 10.12.2012 18:38, schrieb Warp:
> Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
>> Second task: Port Pov to it.
>
> Nitpicking but...
>
> There's a difference between "porting" a program to a platform, and
> simply "compiling" it for that platform. Porting would require code
> modifications, and povray probably doesn't need any for the Raspberry Pi.

Someone already tried the compiling part some months ago, only to find 
that although it did compile and even run, the results weren't 
satisfactory (as in, the output included artifacts that shouldn't have 
been there).

That's when I decided to order one myself.

So yes, it /is/ "porting" this time.


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