war### [at] tagpovrayorg news:406c02d4@news.povray.org

>   However, this isn't true. There's no official POV-Ray 3.6 release.
> 

You realy think that I do not understand what beta version is?

I only dont understand why such greate program must also follow philosofy 
of "greate" programming companys (like micro$oft) - that the program knows 
better then user what is good for him, and all users are stupid and 
shouldnt be allowed to do some thing just because program knows better.

ofcourse I just change date for a second and this is not a problem 
especialy while Pov checks date only at startup and I restar my computer 
about once in a month, so - I'm not complaining, I'm only reporting that 
this behaviour of program is irritating probably for some users, not only 
me. 

Chances that one could not install old 3.5 and needs to use installed pov 
(3.6) *right now* are small, but are notacible.

This is *just* a sugestion ofcourse authors will do what they think is 
best, I only can say that personaly I would add instead dialog box:

WARNING - read carfule!
This is a *beta* (test) version of program.
Please do NOT use it anymore and check www.povray.ord/download/ for final 
version instead.
If You rely need this beta, unstable test-version, they You may use it by 
writting "forcebeta" in this dialog box, or by adding it as commandline 
paramater.
Please remember that this version have BUGS that You can NOT REPORT 
anymore, since this beta version is OUT OF DATE now.

[                   ]

[Get new version NOW]  [Quit]  [Use unstable BETA]



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