POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Bug in expiry code : Re: Bug in expiry code Server Time
1 Jul 2024 14:36:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Bug in expiry code  
From: Dre
Date: 1 Jul 2010 20:00:49
Message: <4c2d2c31@news.povray.org>
"Alain" <aze### [at] qwertyorg> wrote in message 
news:4c2d197a$1@news.povray.org...

>> "Chris Cason"<del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg>  wrote in
>> message news:4c2bf4da@news.povray.org...
>>> I've just found out that there's a bug in the expiry code in POVWIN: it
>>> wasn't supposed to expire until 2011 but it's expired today (and shows a
>>> message claiming it's 2011!)
>>>
>>> I'll get a fix out ASAP.
>>>
>>> -- Chris
>>
>> Suggestion:  Leave the expiry code out completely, it seems to cause more
>> problems than its worth...
>>
>> Cheers Dre
>>
>>
>
> That code is there for a reason. That reason is that it's a beta release 
> and to not have old versions with old uncorrected bugs floating around 
> after those bugs are resolved. Nobody want to get bug report for old 
> squashed bugs...
>
> If you don't want to cope with that, then you should stick with the 
> non-beta version 3.6.
>
>
> Alain

Yes yes yes, I know all of those reasons.

It was only a suggestion.

Cheers Dre


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