Drake Diedrich wrote: > Povray 3.1 (a raytracer) has been released, and I've had a request to > package it. Unfortunately, 3.1 deleted experimental features in 3.0 > (halos), and does not have the patches I applied to the 3.0 codebase (PVM, > isosurfaces). Some of the new 3.1 features are already in the patched > Debian 3.0 package (macros). > What I think we should do is create new Povray 3.1 packages, but keep the > 3.0 packages as well. The announcement on povray.org suggests this (keeping > the 3.0 binaries around for legacy scenes). update-alternatives entries > already exist for the povray binaries, as there are 2 different povray 3.0 > binaries (a bare one and a feature-laden one).
Why not adding the features from 3.0 into 3.1 and sending the upstream authors a nice patch? Regards, Joey -- All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory... -- Larry Wall