On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Ray Rashif <schivmeister@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/02/2010, Giovanni Scafora <giovanni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 2010/2/4, Matěj Týč <matej.tyc@xxxxxxxxx>: >>> That one is not true, Yafaray (note the added 'a', AFAIK Yafray does not >>> exist any more) is actively developed and last website news are two >>> weeks old. >> >> I know, yafaray is actively developed, but we have yafray in extra >> repo, so I ask here to replace it with yafaray 0.1.1. > > "YafaRay's predecessor YafRay (Yet Another Free Raytracer) was written > by Alejandro Conty Estévez, and was first released in July 2002. The > last version of YafRay was YafRay 0.0.9, released in 2006. Due to > limitations of the original design, the raytracer was completely > rewritten by Mathias Wein. The first stable version of the new > raytracer, YafaRay 0.1.0, was released in October 2008." > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YafRay -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YafaRay > > So obviously, it's a replacement. Just deal with as if it were a name change. > > If no Dev/TU is interested in YafRay/YafaRay, then just remove it from the repo. It doesn't make sense in doing the replacement. If someone is interested, they should speak up and adopt/replace yafray. In fact, we could just move ahead and remove yafray. Yafaray can always be added in the repo later on if someone wants to maintain it.
