Bug #2076008 “povray-examples directory and file name mismatches…” : Bugs : Pop!_OS

This may be the wrong place to address a relatively minor and perhaps, obsolete, issue:

I’m using “POV-Ray 3.7.0.10.unofficial” from the Debian packages that come with Pop! OS 22.04 (povray 1:3.7.0.10-1 and povray-examples 1:3.7.0.10-1).

I wrote a quick Bash script to generate MP4 animations from the examples in the animation subdirectories and hit two snags:

1. “reflection.ini” in the subdirectory “reflection” attempts to use “reflect.pov” as the Input_File_Name, when, in fact, the file name is “reflection.pov”. Thiss causes povray to fail because the INI file cannot find the POV source file. Fixed by editing the INI file and correcting the filename.

2. The directory “quilted” has “plotqlt.pov” and “plotqlt.ini”. All of the other directory names match the root of the filenames within them. In other words, for consistency I would expect the directory name to be “plotqlt” OR the file names to be “quilted.pov” and “quilted.ini”.

Easy enough to fix, but I thought someone might want to be aware of the problems.