Thorsten Froehlich  wrote in message <487cac23@news.povray.org>:
> Except that it is available.

It is _now_. Alexandre's post was in the past tense.

The source code for the beta release, as far as I can see, has been
available since 2008-02-18, which is somewhat about three years after the
first binaries.

> The opposite is true: To make bigger changes, you stick to a fixed working 
> copy as you don't want every small change screwing up your large changes. 
> Afterwards you merge your code. That is why there are branches and related 
> features used when managing large source code repositories.

Of course, but that does not mean you must base your branch on an old
version when there is a more recent and reasonably stable one.

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