Nieminen Mika wrote:
> 
>   Why don't you just use the latest povray source instead of duplicating
> the bug fixes to your old 3.1a version? I can imagine it's a lot of
> wasted time.
> 

Actually, it _saves_ time.  The photon mapping patch consists of many
small changes to a variety of files in POV-Ray (mostly scattered around
in lighting.c). Taking a fresh source and making all those changes is
quite a time-consuming task (I've spent hours incorporating it into
the superpatch).  Plus, I want to know exactly how various bugs have been
fixed, so I like to apply the fixes myself.  And on top of that, I have
made a plethora of other changes to POV that I would also have to
incorporate into the new source every time I want to update to a new
code base.

-Nathan

P.S.  I am not experienced with the diff tools, so I do updates by hand.
Maybe someday I'll get around to learning how to use diff.

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