In article <3B698214.2C0CFA72@aol.com>, Dave Dunn <poi### [at] aolcom> 
wrote:

> Hmm, it seems that there is a profusion of new patched versions of POV
> and MegaPOV out there, from PVPOV to POVMan to the particle_system patch
> to the Stochastic Radiosity patch. This is similar to the situation that
> led up to the incorporation of all those new features into UVPOV a while
> back. I was wondering if anyone is eyeing a macro-mega patch that will
> tie all the new features into a single coherent location.

Features in MegaPOV+ usually get added to MegaPOV, exceptions being 
features that are still too much in development, such as the 
particle_system patch. There probably won't be a new version of MegaPOV+ 
until the next version of MegaPOV is released.
MegaPOV itself is pretty much frozen, there are no plans to release 
another version until after POV 3.5 has been released.
POVMan, the stochastic radiosity patch, and most of the other patches 
that aren't in MegaPOV have been going through heavy development...any 
version included in MegaPOV would soon be obsolete, and they are usually 
based on MegaPOV anyway.

There may be a much more open development model for POV 4.0, read the 
latest status update for details (http://www.povray.org/3.5-status.html).

-- 
Christopher James Huff - chr### [at] maccom, http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/
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