Hi,

    I might have missed that but I wonder what is taking so long
      for the POV Team to come up with version 3.1 for UNIX  ?
    Do we Intel *and* Apple - challenged have to wait much longer ?

  Cheers,
   Lothar Esser

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In article <362E4A87.C146081C@chop.swmed.edu> , Lothar Esser <ess### [at] chopswmededu> 
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> Hi,
>
>    I might have missed that but I wonder what is taking so long
>      for the POV Team to come up with version 3.1 for UNIX  ?
>    Do we Intel *and* Apple - challenged have to wait much longer ?

Some things take some time...


    Thorsten

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Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> Some things take some time...
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>     Thorsten
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 Can you be a little more specific ?  - Your reply is not helpful !

   Lothar Esser

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In article <362E64CF.D957E388@chop.swmed.edu> , Lothar Esser <ess### [at] chopswmededu> 
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> Can you be a little more specific ?  - Your reply is not helpful !

The POV-Ray team does not usually give any specific release dates, there is not more
to say - the work is in progress.


    Thorsten

PS: Why don't you try one of the unofficial versions for now if you absolutely need a
unix version *now*?

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But given that Ron Parker and others have been able to compile
the DOS source with so little difficulty on the UNIX system,
it appears that the POV team is trying to do more than this.

But what?

All I can think of is GUI development.  But the beauty of UNIX
is you don't need a fancy GUI.  My UNIX installation doesn't
even use the X code -- you really don't need it.

I think if one polled UNIX users, they'd much rather have the
official source sooner than wait around for GUI code they likely
won't need anyway.

Dan

Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> PS: Why don't you try one of the unofficial versions for now if you absolutely need
a unix version *now*?

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Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> 
> In article <362E64CF.D957E388@chop.swmed.edu> , Lothar Esser <ess### [at] chopswmededu> 
wrote:
> > Can you be a little more specific ?  - Your reply is not helpful !
> 
> The POV-Ray team does not usually give any specific release dates, there is not more
to say - the work is in progress.
> 
>     Thorsten
> 
> PS: Why don't you try one of the unofficial versions for now if you absolutely need
a unix version *now*?

Where can I find it? I really need UNIX version, because I don't use M$
Windoze.

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True, i use xemacs for writting scenes and I will use it in the future
too,
so, for me, any GUI integrated in POV will be only time and memory
consuming.
And X routine for displaying result image can be the same as in 3.0
version.

Dan Connelly wrote:
> 
> But given that Ron Parker and others have been able to compile
> the DOS source with so little difficulty on the UNIX system,
> it appears that the POV team is trying to do more than this.
> 
> But what?
> 
> All I can think of is GUI development.  But the beauty of UNIX
> is you don't need a fancy GUI.  My UNIX installation doesn't
> even use the X code -- you really don't need it.
> 
> I think if one polled UNIX users, they'd much rather have the
> official source sooner than wait around for GUI code they likely
> won't need anyway.
> 
> Dan
> 
> Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> 
> > PS: Why don't you try one of the unofficial versions for now if you absolutely
need a unix version *now*?
> 
> --
> http://www.flash.net/~djconnel/

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