Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:
>
> Do you really think we have not been aware of this possibility when
> making the decision to have a statically linked official version?
>

No - I never said that.  My question was:

Message: <web.40febe24a404e2e24e6ed3100@news.povray.org>
"Thorsten Froehlich" <thorsten [at] trfde> wrote:
>
> Because many people have extremely outdated versions and the start reporting
> problems in POV-Ray resulting from them having linked POV-Ray with outdated
> obsolete buggy libraries that had been fixed a long time ago.

But what happens when the problem is reversed?  i.e. what if new libraries
appear that fix a bug or two in an external dependency to POVRay?  Will new
point releases of POVRay be released, or should users download the new
libraries and rebuild POVRay, linking to the updated libraries?

Regards,
Tim

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