Rick Gutleber <ric### [at] hiscom> wrote:
: I don't think it's too much to
: ask is they think they are 6 months away, a couple months away, a couple
: weeks away, any day now, etc.  But if it is, that's OK with me.

  As Chris Cason said in p.general, he estimates that 8 weeks would be a
definitive maximum, and it will most probably be less.
  The program itself is practically complete, aside from minor implementation
details and perhaps a couple of minor bugs which should not take too much time.
  The biggest work right now is getting the documentation and example scenes
complete. The idea is that a public beta should be a complete pack, with
nothing intentionally missing, as if was just a complete release.

  Of course it's impossible to say how much exactly. There can perfectly
happen something which delays it again, who knows? Originally 3.5 was
intended to be ready in the year 2000, but it wasn't such a small job
after all. POV-Ray 3.5 is not just an "official MegaPov"; it has genuine
new features (which include really nice improvements to the WinPov interface)
and some of MegaPov's features have been greatly improved. Those took
unexpected time to make, but IMHO it has been worth it.
  It's great that the team wants a high-quality program, not just a "hacked
up" bunch of patches (which MegaPov mostly is :) ).

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