FS#36352 - [kpovmodeler] Incompatible with currently-packaged version of POVRay

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Francis Herne (FLHerne) - Wednesday, 31 July 2013, 23:46 GMT
Last edited by Laurent Carlier (lordheavy) - Saturday, 12 October 2013, 05:45 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Laurent Carlier (lordheavy)
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
KPovModeler passes arguments that aren't recognised by POVRay 3.7, breaking the rendering functionality. As the main purpose of the application is to act as a POVRay frontend to produce rendered images, this is quite a problem.

Specifically, the options +QR and -QR don't exist in POVRay 3.7 - a very simple patch (commenting out four lines!) exists at the following URL, which resolves the problem for me.web.4f31148421e92224a4ff49b00@news.povray.org>/#%3Cweb.4f31148421e92224a4ff49b00@news.povray.org%3E"> http://news.povray.org/povray.unix/message/<web.4f31148421e92224a4ff49b00@news.povray.org>/#%3Cweb.4f31148421e92224a4ff49b00@news.povray.org%3E

Additional info:
kpovmodeler-1.1.3-4
povray-3.7.0.RC7-1

Steps to reproduce:
Attempt to use the 'Render' feature (View menu) after creating/loading any model (just the default cube will do).
Expected result is a rendered image, actual result is the error 'Povray exited abnormally (1). See the povray output for details'.

PovRay output:
Problem with option setting
povray +W640 +H480 +Q9 -QR -A -UA +I/tmp/kde-flh/kpovmodelerKP4446.pov +O- +FT +K0.0 +KFI1 +KFF1 +KI0.0 +KF0.0 +SF1 +EF1 -KC -D
Failed to parse command-line option
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Closed by  Laurent Carlier (lordheavy)
Saturday, 12 October 2013, 05:45 GMT
Reason for closing:  Deferred
Additional comments about closing:  https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kpovm odeler/
Comment by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Thursday, 01 August 2013, 22:34 GMT
Hi, I currently maintain the povray package. Unfortunately, I had to choose between an ancient release version or a new rc version.
Povray isn't like other projects, rc versions are seldom released. @Laurent Carlier, feel free to talk to me on IRC if you want to discuss it further (or here). :)
Comment by Laurent Carlier (lordheavy) - Saturday, 12 October 2013, 05:45 GMT
kpovmodeler is now in aur https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kpovmodeler/

Feel free to adopt.

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