In article <3663BEA1.492B705D@flash.net> , Dan Connelly <djc### [at] flashnet>  wrote:
>This isn't a criticism, but rather an observation.
>
>It appears many of the posted bugs, especially those dealing
>with the core renderer (.v bug, normal bug, 4-vector bug,
>scaled sphere bug, etc), despite the fact that code fixes are posted here,
>are ignored.
>
>This, I feel, makes it less likely independent POVers will spend
>the time and effort to track down, fix, document, and post these
>bug fixes.   Why do so if the effort will result in assistance
>to only the lucky few who read the message AND have the compiling
>environment to effect the fix?
>
>I realize the POV team is working for free, and I realize managing
>POV is an enormous task.  But these bugs are sometimes really
>fundamental to the operation of the code, and thus perhaps
>any GUI issues should be secondary to their implementation.

Well, fixing bugs is ok, but do you think a new release every month or so would help
much? Who could keep track of all the modified versions?  You can be sure that the
posts here are *not* ignored!


    Thorsten

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Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
e-mail: Tho### [at] csicom
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