[Radiance-dev] Re: Radiance in Debian

[Bernd Zeimetz]

Randolph Fritz wrote:
> 
> On Nov 6, 2007, at 5:04 AM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> And all the docs are wrong now, including the only published reference,
> and all the e-mail archives.  Does anyone else think this is a bit much?

There's no need to rename genbox in radiance, doing so for the Debian
package is enough. Radiance is neither the first nor the last program
which is hit by such a problem, netatalk is another prominent example,
and there're more.

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Bernd Zeimetz
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