POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.pov4.discussion.general : Metadata : Re: Metadata Server Time
26 Apr 2025 11:35:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Metadata  
From: jr
Date: 14 Apr 2025 07:50:00
Message: <web.67fcf5d8a47621ff721a48e56cde94f1@news.povray.org>
hi,

"ingo" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "jr" <cre### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> > Tcl "starkit"s,
>
> https://sqlite.org/appfileformat.html
> https://sqlite.org/affcase1.html
>
> What if one did something like the above. The database would contain the
> complete current and past project in one file. Beside that one would have the
> complete set of current versions as text files in the working dir(s). One could
> feed POV-Ray the current text file(s) or the database and it would extract the
> current version and render it.

you're preaching to the converted </grin>.  personally, I (and I guess you)
would like to see SQLite at the core of the "next-gen" POV-Ray.



> Several of the editors out there are very configurable (language servers et al) ...

but you're thinking way more "integrated" than self does.


> With a lot of test images and reuse of scenes I loose track of command line
> settings, camera settinges etc.

had me thinking that, at least for the *NIX builds, one could have POV-Ray dump
its argv[] to a '~/.povray_history', to help with that.  (WFP ? :-))


regards, jr.


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