Hi!

I recently discovered a (minor) annoyance in regard to the naming of the 
source file for UNIX. I'm running Gentoo Linux, which downloads the 
source files from the mirrors provided by Gentoo, and when they can't be 
found there, it fetches the files from the original site, in this case 
www.povray.org. When it has the source files it does an md5 digest to 
verify the size and integrity of the file. However, it happily downloads 
the file, since it is always called 'povuni_s.tgz' but the digest fails 
when there is a new version of the source files up.
  So what I am wondering is if it would be possible to release the 
source code with the version number included in the name a la GNU and 
many other packages. Something like 'povray-3.50c.tar.gz' would be 
sufficient for the build procedure to aqcuire the right files, and leave 
the old versions up for a while.

Thanks for a super great software package!

Best regards,

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