POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : POV-Ray 3.5 beta 7 available : Re: POV-Ray 3.5 beta 7 available Server Time
7 Aug 2024 13:17:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV-Ray 3.5 beta 7 available  
From: Francois Labreque
Date: 5 Nov 2001 19:59:12
Message: <3BE73562.4060308@videotron.ca>
Bill DeWitt wrote:

> "scott tuttle" <sco### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
> news:3be6b989@news.povray.org...
> 
>>It's not like you have to pay for the upgrade you know!
>>This is what happens when people deal with microsoft too long.  :)
>>
> 
>     No, but everytime I do an upgrade, I have to spend time getting
> everything back the way I like it. I accidentally lost my insert menu on the
> first beta re-install.
> 
>     Not that I am complaining, I can get by with MegaPov most of the time
> and I appreciate the work done on 3.5, but I can't pretend that frequent
> upgrades are effortless either. If the upgrades were only patches for the
> files that really needed to be changed, it would be a little nicer.
> 


Exactly.  Providing an "upgrade" package as well as a full install would 
be very nice, indeed.

However, I understand that the POV-Team has better things to do that 
search for every modified file since the last package build, and that 
our having to re-modify various .ini files to our liking is probaly best 
at this point.

> 
> 


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