This is great news!

Rather than including thousands of scenes, why not to think about a "Life"
feature which allows to download from a special online folder sample scenes,
sorted by subject (keyword)?

Example: the user has downloaded and installed a comfortably small POV-Ray, and
did already some renders with the included samples. But then, weeks later,
skills having gone up, (s)he wants to write a scene but find out that there is a
need for some more, specific samples (provided by the glorious POV-team or even
other users), and uses the Life feature of the new P7 to get a list of
additional sample scenes containing the desired keyword.

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In fact, this could be possible even with all the scens currently
posted/published on this server. The server just needs a script to check each
functioning, finished uploaded scene for any keyword it contains. With a
database that stores that information, P7's LIFE feature could list all scenes
and even code excerpts around that specific keyword within each scene.

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Otherwise, with the help of all interested users and a jury, thousands of
additional, highly specialized sample scenes could be created just for the Life
feature of the new P7.

Just an idea.

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