The current Linux distribution of POV-Ray requires either svgalib or
xlib. The svgalib implementation has a potential loophole and I'm not
quite happy with this since spovray will run on my firewall. As of the
X version, well, one has to have X right? :)

Would it be possible to have a _really_ console version of POV-Ray for
Linux? One that has no graphical output whatsoever, just simple (not
ANSI-enhanced) text output easily redirected to a file. Why do we need
this? Well, Linux boxes become more and more popular every day, and a
box (as I use here) has no user interface so it doesn't need any input
or output devices, so there's no need to install svgalib or X. Makes
sense?


Peter Popov
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