[Radiance-general] Re: Radiance in Debian

[Greg Ward]

Hi Bernd,

On closer inspection, my thought to check for "genbox" on inline  
commands and print a deprecated warning isn't all that workable,  
since there are so many places in Radiance where inline commands are  
interpreted.  It would require a lot of ugly and temporary code  
changes.  A better solution is to insert a "genbox" shell script that  
prints out the deprecated message before calling "genrbox."  However,  
this still leaves an executable in the Radiance binary directory with  
the "genbox" name conflict, at least temporarily.  Unceremoniously  
getting rid of genbox altogether would break 3/4 of the scene files  
out there.  This is not just a command entered by users -- it's in  
all our scene descriptions, and changing it means changing thousands  
of user files.  Even if it's only a simple substitution, that's a lot  
to ask for everyone to go in and change their data to accommodate a  
molecular modeling system that in all likelihood hasn't yet caused a  
conflict for any of us.

I'm out of ideas.  Anyone else with a brainstorm on this?

-Greg