Le_Forgeron wrote:
> Le 14/02/2012 12:35, Saul Luizaga a écrit :
>>
>> I'm worried that this path POV-Ray has taken is one of a long and slow
>> death. It could take another 10 years, unless they reorganize as Blender
>> did.
>
> The transition to 3.7 is taking more than expected, as it run so far on
> only a few people with small free time. It is a needed larva stage, to
> adapt to modern world.
>
> Once out, you can probably expect some replay of the megapov series (or
> whatever name, it started as superpatch... ). This uncontrolled sandbox
> might be the fertile ground for selecting new features in official line.
> (as It happened from 3.1 to 3.5 and 3.6...)

As I wrote instead of uniting forking, Blender made the opposite and it 
was better, a lot. Also I feel is only a handful of people actually 
doing POV-Ray coding, 1 more thing forking is not helping with and since 
"foreign" coders are making improvements that later will integrated the 
official version seems redundant and inefficient.

> If you have extra energy right now, it would be good to revive the IRTC
> (not dedicated to povray but Cheepa is not the same good name), but it's
> a long and tiring dedication (setting the website, computing result and
> so on). Maybe you can regroup with a few interested people.

I wish I had the time, IRTC is mostly dead, POV-Ray is no longer a 
reference to test performance, etc; is falling behind...

> Why is there no fertile jungle right now: because 3.7 was such a major
> rewrite (in term of internal coding) that making patches while the 3.7
> was not stable is kind of a waste of energy.

I understand but again, wasn't carried out the best way IMO, I think the 
devs are about 5 if so, the rest of POV-Ray effort is forked out.

> About the cited site: yet another website that assume that the reader
> know what they are all about. It took me a few real minutes to find
> something which explain FS, at least at the outer level. In a world of
> google search, more than 15 seconds of reading for search is far too long!

Dude, you complain without pain, if you could only see the website I 
have been, you wouldn't complain for a few seconds even a few minutes. 
They use custom Google search so it shouldn't be difficult and their 
forums is pretty organized and you can easily know what they're about.

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