On 6/15/20 7:34 AM, jr wrote:
> hi,
> 
> William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>> On 6/14/20 8:48 AM, Mr wrote:
>>> William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>> ...
>>> Is there a way to play with this povr branch? I could'nt find it on github or
>>> online....
>> ...
>> I want to get rid of the ini system and move to just flags.
> 
> that would be a shame, I think.  personally, I find .ini files increasingly
> useful, as they allow me to quick render the wip with just "povray name", or
> (when it matters) "povray name[final]"; also, having multiple sections allows me
> to render the same image with different "environments", ie library_paths, so
> different versions of the same .inc files can be used.
> 

I'll think about this some more.

I don't myself use the ini system much beyond what's automatic - and the 
POVINI environment variable. My belief is in a *nux environment the 
usual shells / scripting languages and environment variables will do. 
It's how I mostly do things, but... ?

My thinking is losing the ini mechanism will simplify the code and 
documentation. Plus unix types are used to $PATH etc. Maybe I'm fooling 
myself though. Almost always once I get into something for real, it's 
more complicated than I imagined. :-)

Bill P.

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