I don't know if this has been brought up before but....

First off, hats off to the POV team, you guys are amazing.
But you guys put in a lot of effort on two ends really, an amazing
raytracer AND a parser.
Now for the next major POV release, I hear you guys are thinking about
C++, and that's a good idea, but maybe it would be best to somehow
design hooks for POV to a scripting language, why duplicate the effort
of a porgramming language for POV? I mean (although I love it) we just
got to use macros, something that is part of virtually every scripting
language.  I've seen raytracers that are libraries that you compile with
your code to produce a raytraced image, maybe the best idea would be an
interpited scripting lanugage language...like Perl or REBOL (it's new
www.rebol.com)?  This way it's easy to do things like do advanced non
kludgy code, and best of all, you don't have to maintain a paraser!

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Maneesh Yadav <cj### [at] utpulsecom> wrote:
: I've seen raytracers that are libraries that you compile with
: your code

  I think the rules in povlegal.doc (I hope I remembered the file name right)
forbid this.

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Nieminen Mika wrote:
> 
> Maneesh Yadav <cj### [at] utpulsecom> wrote:
> : I've seen raytracers that are libraries that you compile with
> : your code
> 
>   I think the rules in povlegal.doc (I hope I remembered the file name right)
> forbid this.
> 

Well, I know the point is not decided yet, but if the PovTeam goes for a
complete rewrite there is a chance to change the license.
There are a lot of OpenSource-licenses available, that provide a strict
protection of the code to remain under that license, and give the
original authors full control over name and versioning. I don't know if
the PovTeam wants to, but they could shurely dive their heads into the
licenses of Mozilla or QT.

Axel

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