THANK YOU BOB, a voice of reason in a sea of confusion. I do not comb these
lists with a magnifiying glass as some people expect and so I thought the
web site was the best place to find out what was up. I didn't mean to
distract from all the hard work going on, I feel however like I tossed a
match on frayed nerves.


"bob h" <omn### [at] charternet> wrote in message
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> "KalleK" <kal### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
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> >
> > Are you going to officially announce that beta 10 is up?
> > I wanna be one of the "good ones", not donwloading before the
> announcement,
> > because maybe you are going to change something lastminunte after
> realising a
> > "crashing bug". After someone (inofficially) announced beta 8, you told
us
> > that it is on you to annouce.
>
> One sec, please...
>
> A lot of anxiety going on lately; frayed nerves perhaps after such a long,
> grueling beta test period.  It's a lot like watching wolf packs hunting
for
> the next meal in the middle of winter on PBS.  ;-}
> I don't think people should be jumping all over poor Mitchell like that
> anyhow.  He hasn't been beta testing the past year like so many others
have
> been doing.  And hasn't even been here in the newsgroups much.  Not
everyone
> can lurk for months without speaking up.
>
> Okay, now you can flame me at will.
>
> Yep, I see there hasn't been a official announcement made of #10, neither
> here at general nor at beta-test.
>
> Guess I look too briefly at
http://www.povray.org/binaries/windows/beta.html
> when DL from there, I hadn't realized it states "By this time there will
> either be a new beta version available here or the final version of
POV-Ray
> 3.5 will be available." after the Feb. 10th 2002 date.  Can anybody tell
me
> if that has always been said?
>
> bob h
>
>
>

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