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From: Jack
Subject: Beta-8?
Date: 30 Nov 2001 12:48:53
Message: <3c07c685$1@news.povray.org>
Hi:

Is Beta-8 or final release going to be posted today?

Best regards,
Jack


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Subject: Re: Beta-8?
Date: 30 Nov 2001 12:55:57
Message: <srhf0ukbis8q2pl9jj956uav38odgnbnjl@4ax.com>
> Is Beta-8 or final release going to be posted today?

I wonder about it too. There must be something wrong with it becouse I suppose
they know about two free days before us (no net for many people).

ABX
--
#declare _=function(a,b,x){((a^2)+(b^2))^.5-x}#default {pigment{color rgb 1}}
union{plane{y,-3}plane{-x,-3}finish{reflection 1 ambient 0}}isosurface{ //ABX
function{_(x-2,y,1)|_((x+y)*.7,z,.1)|_((x+y+2)*.7,z,.1)|_(x/2+y*.8+1.5,z,.1)}
contained_by{box{<0,-3,-.1>,<3,0,.1>}}translate z*15finish{ambient 1}}//POV35


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From: Jack
Subject: Re: Beta-8?
Date: 30 Nov 2001 13:41:53
Message: <3c07d2f1@news.povray.org>
I just downloaded it.   :-)

Ask and ye shall receive.

Well, except for raises this.

Thanks to whoever.

Best regards,
Jack


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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Subject: Re: Beta-8?
Date: 30 Nov 2001 14:56:34
Message: <3c07e472@news.povray.org>
In article <3c07c685$1@news.povray.org> , "Jack" <Jac### [at] Brookscom> 
wrote:

> Is Beta-8 or final release going to be posted today?

You really think we would release a final version with more than 25 known
bugs?   POV-Ray isn't Windows! ;-)

    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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From: JRG
Subject: Re: Beta-8?
Date: 30 Nov 2001 17:47:35
Message: <3c080c87$1@news.povray.org>
Just curious: how many beta steps occured in 3.1 version?

--
Jonathan.
"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:3c07e472@news.povray.org...
> In article <3c07c685$1@news.povray.org> , "Jack" <Jac### [at] Brookscom>
> wrote:
>
> > Is Beta-8 or final release going to be posted today?
>
> You really think we would release a final version with more than 25 known
> bugs?   POV-Ray isn't Windows! ;-)
>
>     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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From: Mahalis
Subject: Re: Beta-8?
Date: 30 Nov 2001 18:01:21
Message: <3c080fc1$1@news.povray.org>
"JRG" wrote...
> Just curious: how many beta steps occured in 3.1 version? [hint hint]

True, there probably weren't as many, but with all these complicated new
features, what exactly would you expect?


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From: POVRay
Subject: Re: Beta-8?
Date: 30 Nov 2001 21:27:44
Message: <3c084020$1@news.povray.org>
> > Just curious: how many beta steps occured in 3.1 version? [hint hint]
>
> True, there probably weren't as many, but with all these complicated new
> features, what exactly would you expect?
>

Did it go to 'g' as it was known as 3.1g?

tgq


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: Beta-8?
Date: 30 Nov 2001 22:30:55
Message: <3C084F6B.C371D68@pacbell.net>
POVRay wrote:
> 
> > > Just curious: how many beta steps occured in 3.1 version? [hint hint]
> >
> > True, there probably weren't as many, but with all these complicated new
> > features, what exactly would you expect?
> >
> 
> Did it go to 'g' as it was known as 3.1g?

POV-Ray v3.1 went through 6 public beta versions before final release.
Once it was released officially there were still some rather serious
bugs found and fixed. Each official release that has an upgrade is
assigned an alpha designator with the first official release build
designated with an "a". There were (I seem to recall) a couple of
revisions that did not even make it out to the public. For example
I think POV-Ray v3.1c was skipped and went straight to POV-Ray v3.1d
from v3.1b. POV-Ray v3.1g was the last official build released of
the v3.1 versions of the program. It is not unthinkable that even
after the official release of v3.5a that there will still be some
final revisions released afterwards to squash serious unwanted
bugs.

-- 
Ken Tyler


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Beta-8?
Date: 1 Dec 2001 05:43:33
Message: <3c08b454@news.povray.org>
Mahalis <don### [at] fakeycom> wrote:
: True, there probably weren't as many, but with all these complicated new
: features, what exactly would you expect?

  I personally prefer 50 betas and then get a high-quality product, than
5 betas and a buggy program.

-- 
#macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -


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From: Christoph Hormann
Subject: Re: Beta-8?
Date: 1 Dec 2001 06:04:11
Message: <3C08B935.C8708D95@gmx.de>
Warp wrote:
> 
>   I personally prefer 50 betas and then get a high-quality product, than
> 5 betas and a buggy program.
> 

But you know that 50 betas at the current frequency will take years until
the final release.  I think some more beta versions don't hurt if this
improves the quality of the final product, but 50 is definitely beyond the
optimum IMO.

Christoph

-- 
Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
IsoWood include, radiosity tutorial, TransSkin and other 
things on: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/


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