Ronald L. Parker wrote:
  <lots of good stuff clipped>
> 
> your system.  Again, though, any work of this sort couldn't be
> distributed under the terms of the current POVLegal, unless you
> succeeded in getting it into an official version, and the POV-Team has
> already weighed in fairly negatively on the subject of plugins, as
> well as on the subject of Java.  

The problem with DLL plugins is that they aren't platform independent.
The problem with java is that it is changing too rapidly... no real
standard that is guaranteed to still be around next year (or month, for
that matter).

Also, adding a Java VM to POV could bloat it quite a bit.

I don't think the POV-Team is against the concept of plugins... I just
think that a top priority is platform independence, and if plugins don't
mix well with that, then they are out.

Overall, I do think we need kind of plug-in ability, though.
Unfortunately, I don't have a solution.

-Nathan

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