> Well, POV-Ray is certainly not dying and we still have to pay respect to the
> great work that has been carried on to achieve such a nice piece of software.
> But still. The website is seldom updated, most discussions occur on the
> off-topic group, we keep seeing spheres on a checkered plane on the image
> digest and the software seems to go from one beta to the other. Maybe, someday,
> 3.8 will show up...
> I know a couple of people are working hard to keep improving pov-ray but I
> cannot help feeling that this software is slowly getting "out of place", and
> quite the private matter of a couple of people, and not a big community.
> There are so many great projects going on around, such as Luxrender, Yafray,
> each of them working well with Blender.
> I used to be a pov fan, but I am lost with the licences issues (open-source, not
> open-source, etc...) and, by reading the newsgroup over the years, do not know
> where this software is heading to.
> I know this is very easy to say and I am certainly not the best to judge, since
> I never ever took on my time to help the developpers writing a single line of
> code. I just feel a bit bitter hearing less and less people doing digital
> images around me talking about pov-ray.

Yes. That's just what I feel. "Getting out of place" is a more precise
definition of all that.
Has the Golden Age passed? What would you say?

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