Florian Fischer wrote:

> But the main advantage is a different one: Have you seen any other
> program of which at least 10 different, patched versions exist?
> (perhaps except PGP!)
> All the efforts to create the patched versions (done by independent
> programmers) could be merged with the POV-Team's to develop the main
> version instead. Not only that we'd probably have POV-Ray 4 by now,
> but also a lot of confusion, incompatibilities and bugs between the
> patched versions could be avoided.

Where have you been ? POV-Ray v3.5 due to be released publicaly sometime
this year will be based almost exclusively on user submitted patches.
POV-Ray v4.0 will be a complete re-write in C++ plus will likely add
even more new features to the program.

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Ken Tyler -  1300+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

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