On 14 Mar 2000 08:36:03 -0500, ron### [at] povrayorg (Ron Parker)
wrote:

>On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 00:45:19 -0500, Glen Berry wrote:
>>As for custom-patched versions of POV, every new patch should come
>>with multiple examples of each new keyword and concept that are
>>introduced. If the patch is available for Windows, then appropriate
>>insert-menu addtions should be offered with the patch as well.
>
>Thanks for your input, but if I had to live by those rules I never would
>have released the superpatch into the wild and people would still be 
>complaining about how many different patches there are.  Programmers do not 
>make good writers, and vice versa.  Ideally, someone would volunteer to fix 
>the docs and make insert-menu stuff and create example scene files, but all 
>y'all do is bitch about how much better *we* could do.  Small wonder I 
>stopped doing the superpatch, eh?

Now Ron, did I bitch about you or any other patch writer? All I am
saying is that these things should get done. I don't care if the
original author does them, or someone else. One way or another, it
would be good to achieve this. Heck, I'll probably write some insert
menu stuff myself. Whatever I do write, I will share with everyone.

>I'm one of those who proposed plugins before I was a member of the team.  
>As I understand it, the idea was seriously discussed and ultimately
>rejected because of cross-platform compatibility issues.  Perhaps after
>the next round of changes (which I can't discuss now) some of those issues
>will go away, but I can almost guarantee that someone, somewhere, will be
>so upset by those ultimately useful changes that they'll organize a jihad.

I hope not. Holy wars are the most senseless of wars.

Later,
Glen Berry

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