Ronald L. Parker wrote:
> 
> This is an interesting statement, coming from someone who actually has
> POV-Ray 3.1 available for his platform.  I'm sure some Unix
> afficionados here would have a slightly different perception of it, if
> they bothered to read this group.  Maybe they're all over in
> povray.unix... nope, only Windows has its own group.  Must be an
> anti-Windows thing.

The reason for this is: Any user who has a Unix system running,
is able to install and run POV. For a Windows user this is not
necessarily true! ;-)

> That's the nice thing about that new rule in POVLEGAL.  Nobody will
> ever pollute POV with platform-specific crud like COM and DirectX or a
> shortsighted implementation of Unix shared libraries (as in panorama)
> while the POV-Team is there to exercise some control over the
> direction of development.

I completely agree. What is nice about your statement is that you
mentioned "crud like COM or a shortsighted implementation of Unix
shared libraries" in one sentence. Unbiased. Nice.

Markus

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