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28 Jul 2024 22:23:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: user survey - please answer  
From: Børge Berg-Olsen
Date: 11 Jul 2000 10:13:37
Message: <396B2B03.EBC4EA06@dod.no>
Mark Gordon wrote:

Ok, somewhat belated, but here are my answers:

> 1) Under what operating systems do you use POV-Ray? Please be specific
> as to e.g. Linux distributions, versions, and so forth.  Multiple
> answers are fine.

WinNT povray 3.1g official, and MegaPov0.5a
Linux Slackware 7, povray3.1g official
SUN Solaris 8, UltraSPARC IIi 

 
> 2) Do you want POV-Ray for Unix to have an official GUI front-end for
> your platform? Please indicate which one(s) if you list several
> platforms.

No, I'd like to use emacs.

> 3) Would you want such a front-end to have a built-in editor?

N/A

> 4) Any preference on languages/GUI libraries on such a front end, pro or
> con? (Tcl/Tk, Perl/Tk, Python Tkinter, Java AWT, gtk+, Gnome, KDE,
> Motif/Lesstif)

N/A

> 5) What editor do you use for editing .pov files?

Emacs.

> 6) What format(s) do you prefer for documentation? (HTML, ASCII, PDF,
> ps, man, info, Word document, etc.)

HTML, man, pdf sorted after descending preference.

> 7) What sort of package management do you prefer for precompiled
> binaries?

tarballs, but I usually compile my own source.

> 8) What unofficial version(s) of POV-Ray (e.g. MegaPov, PVMPOV) do you
> use on a regular basis?

MegaPov 0.5a


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