clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:

> And to be frank, the GitHub infrastructure around the repo has been
> quite an asset in the development work ever since. With the manpower
> available to us, it would have been impossible to set up (let alone
> maintain!) anything even remotely like it on our own turf.
[...]
> We also got some feedback and contributions via GitHub that we might not
> have gotten otherwise. Certainly not on as large a scale as in CompuServ
> times, but still.
>
> Among those who got into touch with us were the folks who maintain the
> "homebrew" packages to provide *NIX software for MacOS. Which put
> official MacOS compatibility back on the menu, after it had already
> dropped off the back of the truck in the years prior.
[...]

> The issue tracker also proved useful, if only because it meant we no
> longer had to waste time keeping spammers out of our self-hosted bug
> tracker.
[...]
> And a developers' manual, just because we could. I had already set up a
> few scripts and configs for that purpose years ago for my own use, but
> never got around to setting up a channel for publishing the generated
> documents.
[...]
> Even whether beta.1 would be out yet, without GitHub's ease of deploying
> software, is anybody's guess. It might still be in the pipeline between
> me and Chris Cason. Or I might still be procrastinating about even
> actually running the build process on my local machine. Having GitHub
> run it is so much easier and leaves far less room for PEBCAK errors,
> once the process has been set up.
>
>
> There's no fault in being somewhat suspicious of 3rd party services like
> GitHub. But let that not blind you to their benefits.
>
> Division of labour has been one of the most efficient strategies in the
> history of humanity, and this is just another application of that principle.

Thanks for taking the time to explicit all of this ! I wasn't aware that a (3.7)
Homebrew package was available and just added it to the informal wiki
page(https://wiki.povray.org/content/HowTo:Install_POV#Mac_OS.2FX). May we send
the maintainers for it some kind of notification /request about the 3.8 alpha ?

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