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"Ron Parker" <ron### [at] povray org> wrote in message
news:slr### [at] fwicom...
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 01:05:41 +1100, Chris Cason wrote:
> >
> > 3.1, 3.1a, b, c, d, e, f and g (as far as I recall we didn't skip
> > any letters) were all released to the public.
>
> Some, however (b, c, and f) didn't last very long.
>
Like a fine wine, POV a,g,e,d okay ?
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In article <3c46da34@news.povray.org> , "Chris Cason"
<newsadmin-despam-@povray-no-spam.org> wrote:
> 3.1, 3.1a, b, c, d, e, f and g (as far as I recall we didn't skip
> any letters) were all released to the public.
>
> I expect that there will be a 3.5a and so forth, also (for bugfixes).
Actually, I looked this up a few weeks ago already when someone asked the
same question:
>>>
Change31.doc that comes with the source code tells everybody the whole
story:
19 alpha versions (none released to the public)
26 beta versions (6 released, but I think only 5 released to the public)
8 final versions
The final versions started with 3.1. I think 3.1a followed just two weeks
after that, and I think 3.1 wasn't or was only for a very short time
available outside CompuServe. I am sure 3.1c and 3.1f were never released
to the public. I am not sure about 3.1b...
Note that for 3.5 we so far have not used letter sub-releases since
3.5.alpha.3h which dates back to 3/29/00.
<<<
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LooooooL
THIS was a good one. :)
Happens the same to me.
No more comments needed he he he.
Best regards
"JRG" <jrg### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
news:3c4600de@news.povray.org...
> Every day, just after 6:00 and before 7:00 the sun arises. It had never
happened to
> me, that I woke up wondering whether the sun would arise or not that day.
I
> intensively use a beta for my personal works, I don't care about
expiration date, and
> I almost forget it. Then one day POV-Ray, very politely I must say, tells
me that
> time has come, we have to salute, goodbye beta 9, AufWiedersen. I then go
to
> povray.org, where I expect the new beta to be. As always, I find it,
download it, and
> beta testing goes on. I wouldn't expect to read on a newspaper that, once
again, the
> sun has risen...
> ;-)
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> Note that for 3.5 we so far have not used letter sub-releases since
> 3.5.alpha.3h which dates back to 3/29/00.
This is a good point. It may well be that we will do a 3.51 instead of
a 3.5a, when the time comes.
-- Chris
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> We almost never make an official announcement, beyond what's on the web
site.
> From my point of view, the page says (and has always said, paraphrased),
'if
> the old beta expires you can get the new one from here', and that is how it
> works.
>
> Making an announcement is IMO redundant. If it's there, grab it, no-one
will
> get annoyed since I wouldn't put it up if I didn't want folks to download
it ;)
Thank you for freeing me from my doubts. I downloaded it (if you think about
it - one thousend people beta-testing your software! Gee...).
It was just because of this one:
http://news.povray.org/3C0952E8.C662F1EB@pacbell.net
(I hope, I got this reference right, first time to me.
the thread is called "beta 8"
)
I will expect the sun to rise from now on :-)
All the best, Kalle
--
light_source{-9 1}#macro p(N,_,Y)sphere{<-_,Y-7,15>,.5pigment{color
<2,3,1>/(mod(N,2)?3:9)}}#if(-_<9)p(div(N,2),_-1,Y)#end#end p(463141
9,9)p(69973,9,8)p(201075,9,7)camera{}p(69973,9,6)p(489301,9,5)// KK
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On 2002-01-17 00:08, Chris Cason <newsadmin-despam-@povray-no-spam.org> wrote:
> We almost never make an official announcement, beyond what's on the
> web site.
As far as I can see, there isn't any announcement that the MacIntosh and
Linux betas exist. If someone hadn't mentioned "all three platforms"
earlier in this thrad and I hadn't known about the MacIntosh beta and
noticed that there isn't a link to it on the web site (but there is one
for the windows beta), I wouldn't even have checked the FTP server.
hp (downloading right now)
--
|_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | Verstand, die Augen haben und nicht sehen,
__/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | -- Jeremia 5:21
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In article <slr### [at] tealhhjpat> , hjp### [at] hjpat
(Peter J. Holzer) wrote:
> As far as I can see, there isn't any announcement that the MacIntosh and
> Linux betas exist. If someone hadn't mentioned "all three platforms"
> earlier in this thrad and I hadn't known about the MacIntosh beta and
> noticed that there isn't a link to it on the web site (but there is one
> for the windows beta), I wouldn't even have checked the FTP server.
There are links to all three platform versions on www.povray.org, and there
has always been since the respective betas have been available (with the
exception of the Linux beta link, which appeared for beta 10 also there was
a beta 9 for a very short time).
Further, all betas have been announced at some time in the past. That is,
the Mac and Windows beta availability have been announced in these groups
when beta 1 was announced, and the Linux beta was announced when it became
available.
For the Mac version, it has also always been announced on mac.povray.org.
I really don't see how anyone can miss all those links, threads and other
pointers to the Mac or Linux beta versions!?!
Thorsten
____________________________________________________
Thorsten Froehlich
e-mail: mac### [at] povrayorg
I am a member of the POV-Ray Team.
Visit POV-Ray on the web: http://mac.povray.org
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On 2002-01-19 22:11, Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> In article <slr### [at] tealhhjpat> , hjp### [at] hjpat
> (Peter J. Holzer) wrote:
>
>> As far as I can see, there isn't any announcement that the MacIntosh and
>> Linux betas exist. If someone hadn't mentioned "all three platforms"
>> earlier in this thrad and I hadn't known about the MacIntosh beta and
>> noticed that there isn't a link to it on the web site (but there is one
>> for the windows beta), I wouldn't even have checked the FTP server.
>
> There are links to all three platform versions on www.povray.org,
Ah, yes, now I see it. But I searched around for a good 10 minutes, even
though it is right on the home page.
> Further, all betas have been announced at some time in the past. That is,
> the Mac and Windows beta availability have been announced in these groups
> when beta 1 was announced, and the Linux beta was announced when it became
> available.
But only in the beta group, not in povray.general. After several betas
for windows and mac but none for linux I had unsubscribed p.beta-test,
assuming the linux beta would be announced here, just like the windows
and mac betas were. (I have scored up "Subject: linux", so I don't think
I just missed the announcement).
> I really don't see how anyone can miss all those links, threads and other
> pointers to the Mac or Linux beta versions!?!
Two reasons:
1) That box looks like a banner ad. People don't read banner ads.
2) For the windows version, there is a big link on
http://www.povray.org/binaries/windows.html. So one would expect there
to be similar links on http://www.povray.org/binaries/linux.html and
http://www.povray.org/binaries/macintosh.html. But there aren't.
Hej, there's no harm done. I found out about the linux beta about a week
after it was available. Who cares whether I found it by accident or
through a well-placed announcement? It's here and my first reports will
be hitting p.beta-test within the next hour or so.
hp
--
|_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | Verstand, die Augen haben und nicht sehen,
__/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | -- Jeremia 5:21
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In article <slr### [at] tealhhjpat> , hjp### [at] hjpat
(Peter J. Holzer) wrote:
> But only in the beta group, not in povray.general. After several betas
> for windows and mac but none for linux I had unsubscribed p.beta-test,
> assuming the linux beta would be announced here
It was also announced in povray.unix!
Thorsten
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Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
e-mail: tho### [at] trfde
Visit POV-Ray on the web: http://mac.povray.org
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"Mitchell Waite" <mit### [at] dnaicom> wrote in message
news:3c459a97@news.povray.org...
> Thanks guys for the support.
>
> BTW I checked10 times in the last two days for th new beta, read the
> newsgroups for some comment about where it was, posted a similar message
two
> days ago and got no reponse. So it wasn't for lack of trying that I put up
> this message.
BTW, I couldn't find the beta until Jan 17th (don't know why, but it
appeared that day, so I figured people just slipped up, but now...)
I didn't post about it, because I was busy at the time.
...Chambers
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