William Tracy wrote:

>> 5) Allow the linking of external libraries, so that POV can
>> access custom programming routines from various languages. 
> 
> I'm of two minds on this.
> 
> This would be *very* useful. If there's something that you can't do in
> SDL, you can add it. :-)
> 
> On the other hand, it becomes possible to write malicious POV files. How
> would you like to download a scene file and have it erase all your files
> when you try to render it? Not good.
> 
> That's a tough one, because it's not a technological problem so much as
> a social one. :-(

It could also make the POV community diverge in groups with different sets
of libraries. E.g. because some libraries are only available for a 
subset of OSes.

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