[Radiance-dev] Re: Radiance in Debian

[Randolph Fritz]

If it's added to rad, though, and the programs rad invokes inherit  
it, at least basic scene files will work with the most common  
rendering program.  It's not a perfect fix (I don't think we're going  
to find one) but it will at least get new users over the initial hump.

Randolph

On Nov 3, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Gregory J. Ward wrote:

> There are dozens of Radiance programs that load or decode scene  
> files, so adding the necessary path to all of them is going to  
> involve a whole lot of code changes.
>
> -G
>
>> From: Randolph Fritz <randolph at panix.com>
>> Date: November 3, 2007 2:42:23 PM PDT
>>
>> What I think is the problem is that
>>
>> On Nov 3, 2007, at 1:16 PM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
>>
>>> For those people who add an extra path to their PATH anyway:
>>> What about creating a directory which contains the compatibility
>>> symlinks, so you can add this directory to your PATH?
>>
>> A lot of existing scene files won't work without the additional  
>> directory in the path, and I think that new users are going to get  
>> discouraged very quickly by that.  Perhaps the thing to do is to  
>> have "rad" add your links directory to the PATH it uses when it  
>> invokes oconv.
>>
>> Randolph
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