Spider wrote:
> 
> Rudy Velthuis wrote:
> >
> > Johannes Hubert schrieb in Nachricht <36ade355.0@news.povray.org>...
> > >Whoa! That is understatement if I ever heard one! To call a bug that
> > >prevents 99% of all users to run the program a "minor" one! :-o
> > >
> > >Johannes.
> >
> > Whoa! you're right. But I think he means the bug was just something like a
> > typo or a wrong declaration and not something fundamentally wrong. Still,
> > even a typo or forgetting to free a memory object can be very dangerous too
> > (and sometimes much harder to find, btw).
> 
> Since it is JAVA, memory is not that much of an issue...
> But I agree wtih the typo/wrong def. thing...
> What more is it, a simple erronious compile could be disasterous.... Ie. If it was
> compiled for JDK1.2, instead of 1.1.x .... That would mean taht several users can't
access
> it, but it will work on the computer it was created on...
> 
> //Spider

Wow! Thanks everybody for all this enthousiastic feedback! And the
understatement was not really an accident ;-)

Spider got it: Sun does not provide a way to ensure the version
compatibility of your code. Precisely you can ensure your code is 1.1.x
or 1.2 compatible, but not 1.0... and most browsers are 1.0 compatible
and not more unless... you have the Java plug-in, like me, and here
comes the "bug" :-( This project was started more than 1 year ago, and
since then Sun hasn't stopped to do whatever they could to prevent Java
from expanding correctly: version changes every 2 months, compatibility
changes with every minor release... I hope they won't be surprised it
their attempt fails.

So Johannes, since the source is free you can checked that I only
commented ONE line to make it 100% compatible (I hope) instead of 1%.
And note that m$ ie4 claims that it is 1.1 compatible, which is false
and a reason for an ongoing trial.

Now this short explaination is over, I think the next release would
appear by april, with a full real gui and no need to enter coordinates.

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