POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unix : Re: Povray on Debian AMD64 : Re: Povray on Debian AMD64 Server Time
5 Jul 2024 13:39:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Povray on Debian AMD64  
From: Warp
Date: 23 Sep 2004 04:52:06
Message: <41528eb6@news.povray.org>
Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> Did you ever check out what junk
> Debian distributes a "stable" or "testing" povray packages.  Their "stable
> version is a seven year outdated version of POV-Ray with more broken and
> incompatible patches than POV-Ray has lines of code.  Their "testing"
> version is not a tiny bit better, and there is no serious interest in
> correcting it either.

  And these are people who think "a >> 8" will give a different result
in systems with different endianess and is thus not portable between
platforms.
  If they know so little about basic C standards, I would not be very eager
to trust their code.

-- 
#macro N(D)#if(D>99)cylinder{M()#local D=div(D,104);M().5,2pigment{rgb M()}}
N(D)#end#end#macro M()<mod(D,13)-6mod(div(D,13)8)-3,10>#end blob{
N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  - Warp -


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