in news:web.4558993a8d8f92ab3976a8750@news.povray.org nemesis wrote:

> Sometimes, i wonder why there is this feeling in the povray community
> that everything should be built from scratch.  What i mean is:  while
> povray is an excellent and very versatile software it comes with a
> very limited "standard library" of objects and textures and this sure
> hampers "code reuse".

Just some notes,

http://objects.povworld.org/ This project started quite some time ago, 
but somehow never got real momentum. Few objects where submitted. Then 
the collection wasn't managed for some time, etc...

Maintenance of includes can be(come) problematic over time. For example 
my own Meshmacros, I haven't looked at them for at least two years, it's 
sad. Same for some of the statistics stuff and sunpos in the standard 
library. In the end, the team has to maintain it. No guarantee that I or 
any of the other contributors will be around when the next release 
comes. The POV-Team, and maybe the whole community, is too small to 
maintain everything that could be put in.

Would a sourceforge like system be useful as an addition to a site that 
collects inc's? I've been thinking about putting some of my includes up 
there, or at google's equivalent, but I'd prefer to have them on the 
povray.org

Would it be useful to create a repository like the above and add to POV-
Ray the option to #include from an URI?
#include "http://incs.povray.org/kitchens.inc"
And then somehow make sure that you include the right version of it ;)


Ingo

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