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From: David
Date: 10 Jul 2000 00:07:19
Message: <B58E99E4.1597%davidmccabe@mac.com>
Exactly what is a "TAG member"?

> From: "Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde>
> Newsgroups: povray.macintosh
> Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 22:19:06 +0200
> Subject: Re: To anyone on the POV-Ray team
> 
> In article <chrishuff-96A1BB.15335408072000@news.povray.org> , Chris Huff
> <chr### [at] maccom>  wrote:
> 
>> In article <B58CD1FD.158B%dav### [at] maccom>, David
>> <dav### [at] maccom> wrote:
>> 
>>> I was just wondering, how is it going on POV-Ray 3.5/4.0 (and which one)?
>> 
>> Will a TAG member suffice? :-)
>> 
>> POV-Ray 3.5 is being actively worked on. Pretty much all I can say right
>> now is that it should be out sometime this year. It will contain most of
>> the patches from MegaPOV, but there will of course be some that won't
>> make it, due to being incomplete, buggy, not fitting in with planned
>> features, or just not appearing early enough to be integrated with POV
>> 3.5. Oh, and the Mac version may have a new interface, but I do not have
>> any information on how it will be different from the current one, or on
>> the other supported platforms.
>> Also, the syntax for individual MegaPOV features may change. Many of the
>> patches in MegaPOV have a clumsy/inconsistent syntax, which could be
>> greatly streamlined and simplified(the reflection syntax is one example).
>> 
>> As for 4.0...the POV-Team is currently devoting their available time to
>> getting 3.5 out, so there isn't much to report on it. You can get all
>> the information there is by reading the message "POV-Ray plans for v3.1
>> and beyond..." in povray.announce.frequently-asked-questions.
> 
> Nothing to add here :-)
> 
> 
> Thorsten
> 
> 
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> e-mail: mac### [at] povrayorg
> 
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