This week I updated my kubuntu 22.04LTS to 24.04LTS, and as a result I had to
reconfigure and recompile povray3.8 beta2.

To my amazement I got this error when running the new executable:
Parse Error: Viewing angle has to be smaller than 180 degrees.

After some DuckDuckGoing I found this solution
https://github.com/POV-Ray/povray/issues/460
and after replacing all HUGE_VALs into HUGE_FINITY_VALs my povray was working
again.

Is anybody going to change this in the povray source code, so that there will be
a new version with this patch?
More general, is there anybody, since Christopher Lipka left, still maintaining
povray?
What is the future of povray?
Is there a future for povray, or is 3.8 beta2 the last official version?

Cheers
Ton.

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