Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Jaime Vives Piqueres <jai### [at] ignoranciaorg> wrote:

> > > On 4/13/2011 15:38, Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:
> > >> Any recommendations? (or perhaps I overlooked a way to do it only
> > >> with POV-Ray?)
> > >
> > > Something you can write in a portable scripting language that you can
> > >  wrap up as a stand-alone executable for various common platforms is
> > >  probably best. I use Tcl for that, personally.
>
> >    Perhaps I didn't emphasize it enough, but I really hoped not to have
> > to distribute an executable... the script is very simplistic right now:
> > it just defines some configuration variables at the top, and uses them
> > to read a POV-Ray include file, extract objects and material names, and
> > write some resulting files.
>
>   Perhaps you could write several versions of the script for the scripting
> languages that are most "native" to each of the three major operating
> systems. IIRC there's some scripting language that Windows supports
> out-of-the-box, and on the linux side you have plenty to choose from
> (one to consider, if possible, is using shell scripting, if its features
> are enough, as that's the most ubiquitous in unix/linux). On the Mac you
> could look at AppleScript, which is supported natively (or if the shell
> scripting works, it should work there as well, although Mac users are not
> very accustomed to using the command line).
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp

I fail to see the advantage of going bonkers providing multiple versions of the
same script to support multiple "native" scrpting environments when there are
multiple far better offerings than the native stuff that are both a fast and
free download and also multiplatform.

Jaime, being able to wrap your script in an executable together with the
interpreter is a bonus.  Tcl is just like any other scripting language and you
can just distribute the script and a link to where to obtain the interpreter.

I prefer python as a language, but Tcl is a good choice too.

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