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  Re: installing 'experimental builds' of POV-Ray-- question  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 16 Jan 2016 03:07:02
Message: <5699fa26$1@news.povray.org>
On 16-1-2016 7:08, Kenneth wrote:
> "Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> Thanks! I'm looking forward to trying out the latest fixes and features.
>
> You might want to add a note on your download page that the #version number in a
> scene needs to be changed to #version 3.71 rather than the 'standard' 3.7, to
> make use of the newest features. Of course, that might be obvious to others here
> on the newsgroups; but it temporarily fooled me  :-0
>

One thing you will notice right away, if you use backslashes to separate 
folders in file names, is a list of parse warnings. It is good policy to 
replace them with forward slashes, and it does not influence parsing in 
lower versions of POV-Ray.

-- 
Thomas


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