Nicolas Calimet wrote:
> 
>> As for the libraries I agree with you. They do not really belong to
>> the source code of povray. I would suggest to move them outside the
>> povray package and provide separate archives.
> 
> In principle I would agree, but in practice, for easy installations
> I would actually choose to include the supporting libraries in all
> distributions (or the unique one if everything is unified). If your system
> has better/newer libraries, you can use them. If however one or more
> library are missing, just use the one provided with the sources. In the
> unix configure file that I'm rewritting, this decision could be made
> automatically.

OK, OK, I got it. You, Thorsten and Vadim convinced me. It's easier and
more convenient to simply include the libs. They are not so large to 
justify saving some bandwidth.

Best regards
Thomas

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