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  Re: Hey, want a 3d converter for all platforms?  
From: Ben Chambers
Date: 11 Oct 2001 03:12:25
Message: <3bc54659@news.povray.org>
"Adrien Beau" <adr### [at] sycomorefr> wrote in message
news:3BB09356.46052564@sycomore.fr...
> Hopefully, POV-Ray 4 will be more tolerant to source re-use,
> so external developers will be able to use the parser in their
> own utilities. Until then, pov2foobar will be almost impossible
> to do.

Hope I don't open up pandora's box here, but wouldn't this be a good (albeit
the only) use for intermediate binaries?  Ie, POV parses a scene file, and
outputs a binary scene file.  They'd be much easier for conversion utilities
to read.  OTOH, such a step is useless for POV itself.

...Chambers


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