povray.org admin team <new### [at] povrayorg> wrote in article
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I've started using POV with the 3.0 versionn, so thanks you for development
history. 
Compromise is another name for (software development?) life.

> There is work afoot on a new version of POVWIN which will be split up (a
team
> member alluded to this a few weeks ago in an IRC chat with Twyst) but I
can say
> at this time that, again, the rendering portion will not be a DLL or
ActiveX
> control. Comms will be via TCP/IP (using a well-known port number already
> allocated to POV-Ray by the IANA). It will not support Windows 3.1x. It
will
> support distributed network rendering. There is no date set. It may not
even be
> this year. Please don't bug us about it.

Great. Going directly to Client-Server architecture is better than a just
modular (DLL & Co...) version.
I can totally wait for a such official client-server version ! 
Even for years...

Phil.

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