William Peska wrote:
> Christoph Hormann wrote:
>> William Peska wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for your deep insights. I think that it is a responsibility of 
>>> the POV-Ray developers to figure out their bugs. I wasted enough time.

I suspect the first responsibility of the developers is to do their day 
jobs. Only much further down the list is fixing problems so you can 
render your scenes.

>> That attitude makes me wonder if you actually have any interest in 
>> solving your problem or if you just want to nag.
> 
> The only reliable way to solve the stated POV-Ray problems is to fix the 
> bugs. The workarounds are not reliable solutions and some (most) of them 
> require scene modifications which is unacceptable for me.
> 
> The purpose of a bug report is to clearly show a problem in the 
> software. If you haven't noticed the posted pov scenes are only test 
> scenes designed to show a problem. I can't post actual scene, so the 
> workarounds may or may not work with my actual scenes and therefore are 
> almost useless for me.
The purpose of open source software is so the users can help narrow down 
the bugs. If you want them fixed you've three choices:
a) Do it yourself.
b) Pay someone to do it.
c) Ask politely and wait for someone to do it for free.
Failing this you can either use a workaround or go without. There's 
friendly and very knowledgeable community here who will generally help 
anyone they can and are very hard to alienate - acting as if you have a 
right to support, or suggesting your time is more valuable than theirs 
is however one way of alienating people.

> Now, is there something UNCLEAR here?

Nope we'll all move along now.

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