Re: Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-20 Thread Miles Bader
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It's disheartening because while there seem to be other free ray-tracers >> out there with even better rendering quality than povray, I've not found >> one with anything like povray's wonderfully expressive input language -- >> most other projects seem

Re: Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-13 Thread Miles Bader
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Curious; maybe the FAQ is wrong? It's been a while since I looked at it; maybe the maintainers, and thus attitudes, have changed (for the worse). Alternatively, perhaps the loudest mouths on the mailing list are not representative of the project's long-term

Re: Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-13 Thread Brian May
> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: One question: Brian> I asked about this a while ago on debian-devel and was told Brian> (IIRC) that a major rewrite was happening in order to make Brian> Povray DFSG compliant. Brian> Is this still the case? Two answers: >>

Re: Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 09:01:52AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > I asked about this a while ago on debian-devel and was told (IIRC) > that a major rewrite was happening in order to make Povray DFSG > compliant. > > Is this still the case? No, not really, upstream seems to really want to keep developm

Re: Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-10 Thread Miles Bader
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:16:54 +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any reason to outright insult random software developers here > on a public mailinglist, where insults are offtopic anyway? (Hint: no). > Please refrain from doing so, not only is it against list policy

Re: Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-10 Thread Brian May
> "Miles" == Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Miles> Pascal Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> That would be cool. At least one of the povray maintainers >>> has a giant stick up his butt about Debian, something along >>> the lines of "The version of povray in Debian

Re: Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-10 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 01:35:00PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Cl?ment Stenac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm interested in maintainership of PovRay. > > > > I'm going to try to update the package to the latest upstream version > > and to work on some of the bugs > > That would be cool. At le

Re: Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-10 Thread Miles Bader
Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It's in non-free: > > Thus not in Debian. Oh cool it's pedants' hour -Miles -- 97% of everything is grunge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-10 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 08:03:02PM +0900, Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pascal Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> That would be cool. At least one of the povray maintainers has a > >> giant stick up his butt about Debian, something along the lines of > >> "The version of povray in D

Re: Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-10 Thread Miles Bader
Pascal Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> That would be cool. At least one of the povray maintainers has a >> giant stick up his butt about Debian, something along the lines of >> "The version of povray in Debian stable is old, so DEBIAN SUX0RS IN >> EVERY IMAGINABLE WAY!@&* YARGH#(*!!! LOL!" >

Re: Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-09 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 13:35 +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > ClÃment Stenac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm interested in maintainership of PovRay. > > > > I'm going to try to update the package to the latest upstream version > > and to work on some of the bugs > > That would be cool. At least one

Re: Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-09 Thread Miles Bader
Clément Stenac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm interested in maintainership of PovRay. > > I'm going to try to update the package to the latest upstream version > and to work on some of the bugs That would be cool. At least one of the povray maintainers has a giant stick up his butt about Debia

Re: Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-09 Thread Clément Stenac
Hello, I'm interested in maintainership of PovRay. I'm going to try to update the package to the latest upstream version and to work on some of the bugs Regards, -- Clément Stenac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-09 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the povray package. I don't really use this package myself anymore, and there are some pending issues in the BTS I keep procrastinating about -- so, I think it's better if someone else, maybe more interested, takes over. Meanwhile, I'll remai