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1 Aug 2024 06:25:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: povwin-3.7.beta.11b expired since 2006-01-01  
From: Dre
Date: 2 Feb 2006 19:49:29
Message: <43e2a899@news.povray.org>
"Chambers" <bdc### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
news:43e29f94$1@news.povray.org...
> Spota wrote:
> > Hello DEvelopment-Team:
> >
> > ad: povwin-3.7.beta.11b
> >
> > Will there be some version above the latest (EXPIRED) beta ?????????????
>
> If you've been around for previous POV betas (I think I've seen every
> one of them since 3.0 in 96), this is quite normal.  Releasing a new
> beta compile just because some time has passed isn't necessarily a good
> idea.  Rather, a new beta will be released when significant changes have
> occurred.
>
> The developers have lives outside of POV-Ray.  If you'd like to pay one
> of them a competitive salary to work full-time on 3.7, I'm sure you'd be
> able to get a new version much sooner :)
>
> ...Chambers

So what exactly is the point of an expiry date then?  If it didn't have one,
no problems!

Cheers Dre


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