Starting today you'll see a POV-Ray 3.1a appear in our libraries on
compuserve and at povray.org very soon.  This version mostly fixes
some problems in our upcoming Unix/Linux and Amiga versions.  It also
corrects some platform-specific issues on power mac systems.

The only generic bug it fixes is the problem with crackle textures and
media.  If you used crackle pattern or possibly black_hole warps
anywhere in a scene, it could mess up our random number sequence in a
highly non random way that created visible artifacts in media.  Unless
you need this particular bug fixed, MS-Dos or Windows users need not
rush to upgrade 3.1 to 3.1a.

The POV-Team is hard at work on Amiga, Linux and for the first time
FreeBSD versions.  We still need a volunteer who is willing to compile
and support our SunOS executable.  Contact c_y### [at] compuservecom if
you can help.  We perfer someone with compuserve access but if nobody
steps up soon, we'll accept anybody who can do the job via internet.
        Chris Young, POV-Ray Sysop & Team Coordinator

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I have version 3.1.watcom.win32.r1 . Are we talking about the same thing
here?

Peter

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3.1a is on the povray server now ...

Chris Young <767### [at] compuservecom> wrote in message
<3614deda.7323600@news.povray.org>...
>Starting today you'll see a POV-Ray 3.1a appear in our libraries on
>compuserve and at povray.org very soon.  This version mostly fixes
>some problems in our upcoming Unix/Linux and Amiga versions.  It also
>corrects some platform-specific issues on power mac systems.
>
>The only generic bug it fixes is the problem with crackle textures and
>media.  If you used crackle pattern or possibly black_hole warps
>anywhere in a scene, it could mess up our random number sequence in a
>highly non random way that created visible artifacts in media.  Unless
>you need this particular bug fixed, MS-Dos or Windows users need not
>rush to upgrade 3.1 to 3.1a.
>
>The POV-Team is hard at work on Amiga, Linux and for the first time
>FreeBSD versions.  We still need a volunteer who is willing to compile
>and support our SunOS executable.  Contact c_y### [at] compuservecom if
>you can help.  We perfer someone with compuserve access but if nobody
>steps up soon, we'll accept anybody who can do the job via internet.
>        Chris Young, POV-Ray Sysop & Team Coordinator
>
>P.S. feel free to repost this message
>

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767### [at] compuservecom (Chris Young) writes:
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> 
> The POV-Team is hard at work on Amiga, Linux and for the first time
> FreeBSD versions.  We still need a volunteer who is willing to compile
> and support our SunOS executable.  Contact c_y### [at] compuservecom if
> you can help.  We perfer someone with compuserve access but if nobody
> steps up soon, we'll accept anybody who can do the job via internet.

Can you be more specific how time consuming the "support" probably is? 
I have compiled POV-Ray several times in the past with various settings
and additional patches. If POV-Ray can be compiled for Linux, I don't
expect any problems for SunOS. However, I currently don't have the time
to run a bunch of tests (if they are not a automatic test suite).

Thomas

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