Ole Laursen wrote:

>> Great.  An official RPM would probably be a good idea although a lot of
>> Linux distributions already include a version (SuSE seems to ship 3.5
>> since version 8.1).
> 
> I doubt this is possible. Different distributions still have widely
> different perceptions of where to place things and will support
> different version of the image libraries.

An RPM based distribution *is* a good idea. Most major Linux distributions 
are LSB compliant now and POV-Rays binary structure is not very complicated 
so it shouldn't be a problem to install it on most Linux boxes. Regarding 
the libraries - the RPM system will resolve all dependencies, so I can't 
see any issues here.

> For one thing, RPM isn't even used by all distributions.

Right, but you'll find it on nearly all distributions, even on Debian.

Regards,
Andreas

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