In article <3C4EDD1C.848E9D11@gmx.de>,
 Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:

> Ok, i have finally found some time to have a look, as autowitch mentioned
> it compiles with cygwin, even with -mno-cygwin/MinGW (in case you want to
> use a non open source license) For future versions a makefile would of
> course be useful.

Especially since it now uses GLUT...I'll get to work on one, but I have 
very little experience in such things, beyond modifying them to compile.


> The samples all worked, starting Povray of course not, but that's just a
> small change in the 'povray.csdl' file. 

Hmm? What changes were necessary? Is POV-Ray not named "povray" on your 
system?
I'll eventually have the engine name be a variable, it was mainly 
hard-coded because there are no string manipulation functions yet. The 
same goes for the source file name.


> The indention of the Povray output could be improved, but you 
> probably already noticed that.

In the current POV library, I've removed all indentation...it won't be 
too hard to implement though, I just haven't done it because I haven't 
decided on the best way to store the data.


> The syntax is pretty self explanatory although learning everything will
> probably take some time.  But it seems that writing malicious programs is
> quite easy so you should consider some security mechanism like Povray's
> IO-restrictions.

More dangerous is the system() function...I'll eventually add security 
features to limit file I/O and turn that function off, though they will 
probably be platform-specific extensions to the core code. I'm focusing 
on getting the thing fully operational first...

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Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom>

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