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From: Le Forgeron
Subject: Re: Beta testers please!
Date: 16 Jul 2009 17:01:50
Message: <4a5f953e@news.povray.org>
Le 16/07/2009 21:47, clipka nous fit lire :

[snip, but agreed]

Source for linux beta 33 please!
How am i to report issue on 33 without sources ?


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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: Beta testers please!
Date: 16 Jul 2009 17:02:44
Message: <4a5f9574@news.povray.org>
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:01:49 +0200, Le_Forgeron wrote:

> How am i to report issue on 33 without sources ?

If you have the binaries, start with reporting what happens when you do 
things - sources aren't required to submit bug reports.  If they were, 
nobody would ever report bugs with any closed source software. ;-)

Jim


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From: clipka
Subject: Re: Beta testers please!
Date: 16 Jul 2009 18:20:00
Message: <web.4a5fa71c117b82c7579432980@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:01:49 +0200, Le_Forgeron wrote:
>
> > How am i to report issue on 33 without sources ?
>
> If you have the binaries, start with reporting what happens when you do
> things - sources aren't required to submit bug reports.  If they were,
> nobody would ever report bugs with any closed source software. ;-)

Um... sorry Jim, but he's talking about Linux. No binaries there for quite some
time...

I guess it must be conceded that releases still keep lagging behind on Linux.


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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: Beta testers please!
Date: 16 Jul 2009 18:52:17
Message: <4a5faf21$1@news.povray.org>
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:18:04 -0400, clipka wrote:

> Um... sorry Jim, but he's talking about Linux. No binaries there for
> quite some time...
> 
> I guess it must be conceded that releases still keep lagging behind on
> Linux.

Oh, whoops, how did I miss that? :)

Jim


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From: Joerg
Subject: Re: Beta testers please!
Date: 19 Jul 2009 04:42:24
Message: <4a62dc70$1@news.povray.org>
Le_Forgeron wrote:
> Le 16/07/2009 21:47, clipka nous fit lire :
> 
> [snip, but agreed]
> 
> Source for linux beta 33 please!
> How am i to report issue on 33 without sources ?

I'd also like to attend beta testing.
But there's still no Linux Beta 33 available so far.
Are the re any plan to release it?

Thanks


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From: Joerg
Subject: Re: Beta testers please!
Date: 22 Jul 2009 02:10:45
Message: <4a66ad65$1@news.povray.org>
clipka wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> I guess it must be conceded that releases still keep lagging behind on Linux.

Can I do something to speed up things for Povray on Linux?
Is help needed/welcome? Can I offer assistance?

Joerg


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From: Nicolas Calimet
Subject: Re: Beta testers please!
Date: 22 Jul 2009 12:44:02
Message: <4a6741d2$1@news.povray.org>
> Source for linux beta 33 please!

	Please grab it from there until it's available at povray.org:

http://pov4grasp.free.fr/download/povray-3.7.0.beta.33.tar.bz2

	- NC


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From: William Pokorny
Subject: Re: Beta testers please!
Date: 26 Jul 2009 19:55:00
Message: <web.4a6cec54117b82c7d2e3fb180@news.povray.org>
Nicolas Calimet <pov### [at] freefr> wrote:
> > Source for linux beta 33 please!
>
>  Please grab it from there until it's available at povray.org:
>
> http://pov4grasp.free.fr/download/povray-3.7.0.beta.33.tar.bz2
>
>  - NC

Thank you. I was able to compile and run this on a ubuntu 9.04 dual core atom
processor / nettop box with no trouble related to the povray beta 33 code.

Render Time:
  Photon Time:      0 hours  0 minutes  1 seconds (1.821 seconds)
              using 7 thread(s) with 2.127 CPU-seconds total
  Radiosity Time:   No radiosity
  Trace Time:       0 hours 11 minutes 40 seconds (700.418 seconds)
              using 4 thread(s) with 2724.505 CPU-seconds total

I really want a dual w5580 xeon box, which I expect would be about 20 times
faster - also 20 times more expensive! Good news here is hyper-threading looks
to be working really well for povray 3.7 in this new crop of Intel processors.

The i7 920 benchmark results posted a month or two ago in the unix group were
just ever so slightly slower than a benchmark run I did with beta 32 on a
borrowed 3 year old dual 4 core 3ghz+ xeon processor machine with no
hyper-threading. (i7 920 4 cores + hyper-threading looks roughly as fast as 8
older xeon cores for povray 3.7- cool)


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From: Chambers
Subject: Re: Beta testers please!
Date: 5 Aug 2009 23:46:13
Message: <4a7a5205$1@news.povray.org>
clipka wrote:
> - Volunteer to help Jim get the documentation up to date.

Is this being done via the wiki (wiki.povray.org), is that only for the 
future?

Sometimes I'm in the mood to write some docs, and I want to make sure 
the changes get submitted in the correct way.

-- 
Chambers


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From: Jim Holsenback
Subject: Re: Beta testers please!
Date: 6 Aug 2009 18:56:38
Message: <4a7b5fa6@news.povray.org>
"Chambers" <Ben### [at] gmailcom_no_underscores> wrote in message 
news:4a7a5205$1@news.povray.org...
> clipka wrote:
>> - Volunteer to help Jim get the documentation up to date.
>
> Is this being done via the wiki (wiki.povray.org), is that only for the 
> future?

The future is now .... this is the repository that needs to be updated to 
reflect v3.7

http://wiki.povray.org/content/Documentation:Contents

> Sometimes I'm in the mood to write some docs, and I want to make sure the 
> changes get submitted in the correct way.

Check out the dev notes section .... if you have additions for stuff that 
was added in 3.7 just create an associated talk page where you think it 
should go. New sections will need some upstream additions to tie it all 
togeather (table of contents and other housekeeping) .... I'l handle that. 
As far as the new content .... have a go at it! I monitor the change log so 
I'll see when stuff starts showing up. Will do my best to stay on top of it 
in case you have questions. Thanks for taking an interest!

Cheers Jim


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