On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:33:15 GMT, Alan Kong <ako### [at] pacbellNO-SPAMnet>
wrote:

>On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 14:23:09 GMT, nospam@ (Thierry Godefroy) wrote:
>
>>I just ported POV-ray v3.1g to QDOS/SMS (Sinclair QL and compatible
>>computers operating system). I would like to submit it to the POV-ray
>>team for inclusion into the official POV-ray distribution, but I can't
>>find any address of someone responsible for this in the team. Could
>>someone help please ?
>
>>Thierry Godefroy (god### [at] imaginetfr)
>>
>>PS: if you are curious about QDOS/SMS, go to http://qdos.cjb.net
>
>  Hi, Thierry. Have you read Povlegal.doc, which is included with every
>POV-Ray distribution?

Yes, I did...

>POV-Ray has historically been ported to a number of operating systems as
>unofficial builds (the POV-Team encourages this) but they only provides
>official distributions when they can offer technical support.

I am ready to offer technical support for the QDOS/SMS version !

>I believe that you must distribute your port as an unofficial
>compile, compliant within the guidelines set forth in Povlegal.doc, and
>provide technical support for this port.

I am doing this (in fact since years as I already ported DKB trace
v2.12 and POV v2.2 before), but I would like to make the QDOS/SMS
specific source a part of the official distribution (there is now
a QDOS/SMS compatible system, the Q40, with 65536 colours support)...

Anyway thanks for your reply !

Thierry Godefroy (god### [at] imaginetfr)

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