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28 Jul 2024 22:31:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV Plug-ins (was Re: pov to moray conversions: possible?)  
From: Ian Burgmyer
Date: 22 Mar 2000 00:01:06
Message: <38d85392$1@news.povray.org>
Lutz Kretzschmar <lut### [at] stmuccom> wrote in message
news:38d### [at] newsstmuccom...
> Hi Ian Burgmyer, you recently wrote in moray.win:
>
> > What if full plug-in support was added to POV-Ray?  Then something like
this
> > would probably be possible.
> I don't think that's going to happen since we want to keep POV-Ray
> cross-platform, especially the scene files. And not all platforms
> support shared libraries (called DLLs in Windows).

Yeah, I realize that, but what about OS-specific plugins, like file
exporting?

Unless there'd be too much work involved in writing the plugin code (you'd
know about that ;-).  Then again, they'd probably have to write different
code for every OS. . .ahh, screw it :)

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