Ive schrieb:
> I am indeed considering doing this by myself

... which would be good news, because I guess it would be in good hands...

 > but as I have also already
> pointed out: after such an long lasting 'experimental' phase I think 
> simply dropping the TIFF support would in fact also be a valid solution 
> as there *is* currently no benefit for POV-Ray in using TIF-files as 
> they are always stored as 8bps rgb images and those are supported by all 
> the other image file formats POV-Ray does use as well.

That is indeed a valid point. And it's not like image file formats are 
any difficult to convert nowadays.

> The point I do disagree with you is this 'better a poor support than 
> nothing'. Hey, it's the 21st century and I simply expect from any render 
> software to make use of higher bit-depth if the image file format 
> supports this.

Well, my point was actually "better a merely inferior support than one 
that doesn't even work for the most brain-dead basic file variant", and 
"retaining an existing albeit inferior support doesn't hurt" (at least 
not too much).

Though I do concede that dropping TIFF support altogether might not hurt 
too much either. And after all, it has been marked experimental all the 
while anyway.

What I do disagree with is the "changing from libtiff 3.6.1 to libtiff 
3.8.2 makes things even worse" that your postings appeared to imply.

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