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  Re: Standard include files - not a proposal, yet  
From: John VanSickle
Date: 24 Sep 2001 14:28:22
Message: <3BAF7CA2.FA2D77C5@hotmail.com>
Warp wrote:
> 
>   And besides, a continuously updated set of include files can be a
> good thing, but it can also be a bad thing: If some include files are
> changed, then lots of existing pov files can become incompatible with
> them. That is there will be a lot of versioning problems. There may be
> pov-files which work with the library version 3.5a5, but not with
> versions 3.5a4 nor 3.5a6. This can be a headache.

Good public-macro writing habits can prevent this.  I have re-written
my macros from time to time, primarily when a macro does not work as
advertised.  New ideas are implemented in new macros, instead of being
tacked onto old ones.

Regards,
John
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