"Chris Cason" <new### [at] deletethispovrayorg> wrote in message
news:3d2adcbc@news.povray.org...
> It is with pleasure that the POV-Team announces that POV-Ray version
> 3.5 is now officially available for the Windows, Macintosh and Linux
> platforms.
>

Woohoo!! Thanks very much. Congrats to the Team for their
work and for surviving our badgering for the last several months

Gail
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In article <3d2b277a@news.povray.org> , "Kevin Ellis" 
<kev### [at] tiscalicouk> wrote:
> Thanks to the Team and all others involved in bringing about this truly
> momentous occasion :)

> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 19:14:15 +0100

Please fix your system date.


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Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
e-mail: tho### [at] trfde

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"Chris Cason" <new### [at] deletethispovrayorg> wrote in 
news:3d2adcbc@news.povray.org:

Greate work :)

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"Chris Cason" <new### [at] deletethispovrayorg> wrote in message
news:3d2adcbc@news.povray.org...
> It is with pleasure that the POV-Team announces that POV-Ray version
> 3.5 is now officially available for the Windows, Macintosh and Linux
> platforms.
>

Oh boy ! Oh Boy ! oh boy !

been waiting for this and like waiting for an excellent chef's
dinner production my appetite has been sharpening while all
sorts of good things have wafted through the beta cycle ...

Thanks Chris, thanks PovTeam

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Awesome!
I've played on and off in three years now (time flies), and I feel like I'm
only at the top of the iceberg :-)
Thank you POV-Ray team and everyone else in the community, for giving birth
and growing a new version of the best raytracer around!
POV-Ray is fun!
The new website looks great too! I especially like the 3d feel of the logo
in the right corner!
Keep it up!

-Peter

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"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
news:3d2b3f9f$1@news.povray.org...
> Please fix your system date.

I already have done as can be seen from the reply to my own message that I
posted a minute later.

Sorry for upsetting everyone, no malice intended.

Kev

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YEEEEEAH!

And perfect timing, too, since now I have time to spend working with it!

Mad props to all involved! :-)

- Kevin R.

Chris Cason wrote:
> It is with pleasure that the POV-Team announces that POV-Ray version
> 3.5 is now officially available for the Windows, Macintosh and Linux
> platforms.
> 
> In development for well over two years, v3.5 is a major improvement
> over all previous versions, not only in features, but in stability
> and the quality of the documentation and included example files. Of
> course, we don't claim it to be bug free (see our known bugs list at
> our web site), but given our extensive alpha, pre-beta and beta program
> we feel that what we are releasing today is a stable, well-tested piece
> of software that can be used with confidence.
> 
> Since our first internal alpha version (early 2001), we have built 6
> alphas, 14 private pre-betas, 16 public betas, and 6 release candidates
> to get us to today's final 3.5 release. During this time we read,
> reviewed, and in many cases answered over 12,000 newsgroup postings in
> our private and public beta test forums, resulting in many hundreds of
> bug fixes and improvements.
> 
> The POV-Team would like to extend its heartfelt thanks to all those who
> helped to make this possible, and particularly to our dedicated group
> of pre-beta testers, who not only performed testing functions but also
> made major contributions to the scene and documentation files, not only
> during the pre-beta stage but right up to the days before the final
> release.
> 
> I would also like to extend my personal thanks to the POV-Team members
> who worked long and hard on this since we started on it all those years
> ago. Your dedication is truly appreciated.
> 
> -- Chris Cason
>    POV-Team Co-ordinator
> 
>

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(loud whistling, lots of applause)

I thank you all, too. From the POV-Team, to the TAG-Team, to the beta testers,
to the many end users. All of whom are:

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A litle rain on the parade... because it can't all be beautiful :-)
Nearly missed out on the event today. ISP isn't connecting right for the past
couple weeks, and computer quit working a week ago. Using this old IBM Aptiva
(that crashes a lot) I had to set up again for downloading version 3.5
(hurrah!), taking an hour which I wasn't used to anymore.
Parents 50th wedding anniversary, 4th of July holiday, the visiting relatives,
about given up on my boat ever riding over the water again, all hampered things
further. Plenty of good and bad going on, way more than I'm accustomed to.
I also witnessed the inaccessible povray website, like others had, and thought
my bad luck had affected it as well. It was very good to see it hadn't gone
into oblivian, since I was beginning to think someone unplugged the server
there.

Again I say, thanks to everyone involved in Persistence of Vision Raytracer
v3.5! Back to some YKYBRTLW fun.

bob h

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Nice to see v3.5 up and running - it still amazes me that a program like
POVray is freeware.

Now looking forward to getting into all the new features of 3.5 - ah, so
much more to learn and experiment with...bliss!

Though I'll still probably keep making my pyramids. I expect. Hmmm.

Thanks to the POVray development team, and thanks also to all the POVray
experts for their continuing help and advice in these newsgroups - very,
very much appreciated.

Tony S

Chris Cason wrote in message <3d2adcbc@news.povray.org>...
>It is with pleasure that the POV-Team announces that POV-Ray version
>3.5 is now officially available for the Windows, Macintosh and Linux
>platforms.
>
>In development for well over two years, v3.5 is a major improvement
>over all previous versions, not only in features, but in stability
>and the quality of the documentation and included example files. Of
>course, we don't claim it to be bug free (see our known bugs list at
>our web site), but given our extensive alpha, pre-beta and beta program
>we feel that what we are releasing today is a stable, well-tested piece
>of software that can be used with confidence.
>
>Since our first internal alpha version (early 2001), we have built 6
>alphas, 14 private pre-betas, 16 public betas, and 6 release candidates
>to get us to today's final 3.5 release. During this time we read,
>reviewed, and in many cases answered over 12,000 newsgroup postings in
>our private and public beta test forums, resulting in many hundreds of
>bug fixes and improvements.
>
>The POV-Team would like to extend its heartfelt thanks to all those who
>helped to make this possible, and particularly to our dedicated group
>of pre-beta testers, who not only performed testing functions but also
>made major contributions to the scene and documentation files, not only
>during the pre-beta stage but right up to the days before the final
>release.
>
>I would also like to extend my personal thanks to the POV-Team members
>who worked long and hard on this since we started on it all those years
>ago. Your dedication is truly appreciated.
>
>-- Chris Cason
>   POV-Team Co-ordinator
>
>

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On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 22:52:27 +1000, "Chris Cason"
<new### [at] deletethispovrayorg> wrote:

>It is with pleasure that the POV-Team announces that POV-Ray version
>3.5 is now officially available for the Windows, Macintosh and Linux
>platforms.

Thanks, Chris. Thanks, guys.


Peter Popov ICQ : 15002700
Personal e-mail : pet### [at] vipbg
TAG      e-mail : pet### [at] tagpovrayorg

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