Tim F wrote:
> 
> I don't think I'm relaying my point properly.  None of this has *anything*
> to do with what I was trying to suggest.  As an example, lets say I have
> the prepackaged binary, which is statically linked against libpng-1.2.5 (I
> think). But lets say there is a bug in libpng-1.2.5 that in certain
> instances causes a memory overflow or (even less likely) a corrupted image.
>  libpng-1.2.6beta has a fix for this bug, but all users of the prepackaged
> povray now have a borked binary.

Do you really think we have not been aware of this possibility when 
making the decision to have a statically linked official version?

Christoph

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