POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Status of Moray? : Re: New SDL for POVRay Server Time
18 Jul 2025 22:04:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: New SDL for POVRay  
From: St 
Date: 4 Oct 2007 10:39:26
Message: <4704fb1e@news.povray.org>
"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message 
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> St. <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
>> As it happens, from a non-programmers point of
>> view, I think this thread has been a frenzy of what everyone *wants*
>
>  No, it's not about what everyone wants, it's about what POV-Ray needs.

    Well, yes, that's true.


>
>  POV-Ray needs to improve, else it will slowly fade into oblivion.

     I'm with you, I understand this.


>  There are also many other features which would benefit from scripting
> support, such as importing and exporting of file formats (how many times
> has a converter from POV-Ray to other formats been requested?)

      True, many, many, times.


>
>  Also, POV-Ray cannot simply drop its scripting language. This is simply
> because the scripting language is one of the major features, which
> differentiates it from many other similar renderers. I fear that if
> POV-Ray was a pure renderer, with no scripting support, it would have
> been forgotten long time ago.

  Couldn't we just call Moray 'Pov-Ray', and work with that?

    ~Steve~






>
> -- 
>                                                          - Warp


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