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Chris Cason wrote:
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> I wasn't aware that frequency of releases had become a software quality metric.
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It has not for me. I believe POV-Ray to be very high quality, which is
why I'm still here. I believe this even more after having recently been
forced[1] to use another renderer to get a descent image of a model I
had created.
I would describe POV-Ray as, "The DOCUMENTED free renderer without the
overly pedantic text interface."
However, the slow development of POV-Ray leaves me concerned that this
quality program (or at least, a good deal of the community around it)
may one day disappear. I love POV-Ray, but I feel like an IE user - the
problems the program does have[2] are GOING to be there for the
foreseeable future. Meanwhile, others are steadily marching towards
greater speed, integration with modelers, and other things about which I
don't care a lot, but others do.
-Shay
[1] By my own mistake or a bug in POV-Ray. I'm not 100% certain yet, but
I'm leaning towards bug. Pixie rendered the model without problems.
[2] ie "Pass by reference" bug.
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