It's not the release of the official version yet.   :-(

However, I did just install WINE on my system tonight. I then tried to
install the Windows version of 3.5 beta. The installer hung at the last
steps, but after a bit of hacking..... it RUNS!!!!


RedHat 7.1 with latest updates.
WINE from the codeweavers-wine-20010626-4.rpm package
 (I used Ximian's red-carpet updator and just subscribed to the
CodeWeavers channel)

I got someone to export HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_CURRENT_USER
registry entries for their Windows install ofPOV-Ray 3.5. Hacked them a
bit to change to my drive setup, then imported by running Win98's
regedit.exe from WINE.


I couldn't open a file in the editor, but I could start renders from the
command-line. It runs slow, but hey, at least it runs.


What this means for me is that now I can test the Mesh2 output from the
model converter I'm writing, and be sure that UV mapping is coming out
OK, etc.


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Jon A. Cruz
http://www.geocities.com/joncruz/action.html

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