Jim Henderson wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, is there a plan for a beta of a Linux build?
> 
> Kinda itching to get my hands on it to start playing with it (particularly
> interested in MP support). :-)

builds for other platforms will most likely wait until the core code settles
down. the changes necessary to get POV to the state where we can support SMP
properly (we didn't want to do a hack) are massive, as will become clear when
the source code is released. apart from the internal re-structuring needed
for threading we have both logically and physically separated the front and
back ends (frontend being the UI, backend being the renderer), which has
changed the way that the platform-specific code integrates. As this work is
not yet complete, it's probably better that we get it all done to avoid
duplication of effort before other platforms follow.

sorry that's not much of an answer but it's the best I can give right now :-(

-- Chris

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