[Radiance-dev] Re: Radiance in Debian

[Lars O. Grobe]

> 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?

As I mentioned, I take the documentation problem more serious then the 
PATH and script questions. But actually, to prevent this, you would have 
to "freeze" Radiance forever. A lot of things changed since the first 
printed "RwR", and as I have a copy I bought some years ago, I have to 
live with the fact that there is no obj2mesh, another animation system, 
rvu instead of rview, ...... it's like that for all software that is 
maintained.

The email archives will reflect the changes (such as they already 
contain this discussion). The example scenes can be updated. The problem 
is the book. So here, one could create a set of pages with changes, 
corrections and updates to distribute as pdf. People may print out than 
and add it to the end of their copy of RwR. Would be reasonable with or 
without renaming.

I am against Bernd's proposal of changing the name only in Debian. 
Support on the list would be hell, a bit like anwering the 
Desktop-Radiance users' question while noone of those answering has an 
installation of the modified software. And if we reference to the 
cabin-scene, it should be THE cabin, not the Debian-, the classic- or 
maybe one's Special-scene...

CU Lars.