Op 25/09/2019 om 02:45 schreef Bald Eagle:
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> Just throwing these out there as I do periodically.
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And thank you indeed for that. I believe this to be an important exercise.

I am not going to comment in detail; you have brought the points 
forwards and there is certainly more. I simply want to stress the 
frustration of 'disappearing' and 'lost' sites with useful #include, 
#macro, and other smart information over time. It is a natural 
phenomenon like evolution and it cannot be avoided, but regularly, 
useful developments are lost to the community and/or have to be 
re-invented several times. I do not have a specific example in mind at 
present but I have noticed this to happen on a regular basis over the 
past years. The closure of the 'Colefax' site is a prime example (or 
Uncle Tyler's for that matter) and I dread the possible future closure 
of sites like Friedrich Lohmüller's, Mike Williams', Jaime Vives 
Piqueres', or Gilles Tran's, just to cite a few examples. Fortunately, 
there are a couple of idiots about who 'collect' those things ;-) but at 
the end of the day it is not a sustainable way of doing things POV-Ray-wise.

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> Just emptying my brain onto the forum for the record.
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and a good thing you did.

-- 
Thomas

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