[Radiance-dev] Re: Radiance in Debian

[Bernd Zeimetz]

Lars O. Grobe wrote:
>> Because unless the campatability link is installed, a large number of
>> existing scenes won't render, and none of the docs will tell you why. 
>> Can you imagine something more frustrating to a new user?
> 
> But that is what I am wondering. The new user does not have existing
> scenes. And it is trivial to change the scenes that are distributed,

They're patched if you look into the package.


> The real worry I could understand is that things are documented in RwR
> which is not so easy to update. But that is also true for all changes of
> Radiance including new features.

At least those changes, including the rename of rview to rvu, are
documented in /usr/share/doc/radiance/README.Debian, which is the
appropriate place for such a documentation.

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Bernd Zeimetz
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