Bug 4977 – [OUTDATED] POV-Ray

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Christian - Manny Calavera - Neumair 2002-07-14 04:10:10 UTC]

Available on the net: 3.5
Available in gentoo: 3.1g

see you,
- Manny -

[Comment 1 Ryan Phillips (RETIRED) 2002-07-15 11:08:30 UTC]

The sourcecode to povray has not yet been released yet... They say Aug 1.

[Comment 2 Jonathan Kelly (RETIRED) 2002-07-17 09:57:42 UTC]

Created attachment 2331 [details]
ebuild for binary povray-3.5 package

for those who can't wait ... like me

[Comment 3 Jonathan Kelly (RETIRED) 2002-07-17 09:58:40 UTC]

Created attachment 2332 [details]
povray-3.5 digest

[Comment 4 Ryan Phillips (RETIRED) 2002-07-17 11:12:13 UTC]

Hope I don't sound nitpicky... but Binary ebuilds should be installed into
/opt and a path script added to /etc/env.d

[Comment 5 Spider (RETIRED) 2002-07-19 07:25:12 UTC]

actually its a bit more than nitpicking, as this version won't run on other
arch's that ix86 as well.   I've been talking to Mark Gordon (Povray/Ximian dev)
and the new source is auto-tools working and should be far less of a hack to get
going.  it'll be some more time until they release it though.

[Comment 6 Ryan Phillips (RETIRED) 2002-07-19 10:58:46 UTC]

Personally, I agree with Spider, the package should wait for the source... A
quick hack probably isn't the best of solutions.

[Comment 7 Ryan Phillips (RETIRED) 2002-08-06 03:14:28 UTC]

committed for testing.