[Radiance-general] Re: os 10.3 panther raypath set

[Mark Steven Baker]

This problem has existed for far too long. The simple and intelligent
fix is to rename the Radiance rview program in the source and makefiles
to radview or some such and be done with it. 

Complaining about vi, vim, and standard Unix applications is not a solution,
it is just a band-aid approach. If there are other Radiance tools with
name clashes, then these tools should also be renamed. Radiance is a very 
specialized tool used by a very, very. very small number of computer users.
Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Cygwin, and other Unix or unix-like systems
are used by thousands of more users. If you want to make radiance more
accessible and useable by others, then one of solutions is to fix these
minor problems.

Regards,
-Steve

Steven Baker                      
msbaker@cs.uoregon.edu

Roland Schregle writes:
> Jeffrey McGrew wrote:
> 
> > It's a minor pain. The biggest problem I see with it isn't that
> > fact that rview is named the same as the alias used for Vim, it's
> > the fact that people, like me, install cygwin or linux specifically
> > for learning Radiance, run into this problem, and not understanding
> > anything about unix are instantly lost. :)
> > 
> > But this rview problem is there in Mandrake, and in Cygwin
> > too if you install Vim. For Mandrake, I simply removed the
> > alias with no problems, and for Cygwin I simply uninstalled
> > Vim, for I use Emacs. :)
> 
> Yeah, I ran into that too with Mandrake, and it pissed me off! I 
> immediately obliterated the damn alias and vi(m) with it. It ranks down 
> there in my bottom 10 braindead editors of all time (DOS edlin also 
> comes to mind). I've always preferred joe; it's compact and powerful 
> enuff for my purposes. I can't imagine for the life of me why anybody'd 
> call vi their editor of choice, but I know for a fact some individuals 
> at Fraunhofer ISE swear by it.
> 
> Sorry for the off-topic stuff, hope that won't start an editor feud. But 
> since we're on about editors: emacs sucks. :^)
> 
> --Roland
> 
> 
> -- 
> Roland Schregle
> PhD candidate, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems
> RADIANCE Photon Map page: www.ise.fhg.de/radiance/photon-map
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