POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : Beta expiry : Re: Beta expiry Server Time
7 Jul 2024 05:33:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Beta expiry  
From: Samour
Date: 4 Aug 2009 16:40:00
Message: <web.4a789bf5928e34b364c007780@news.povray.org>
clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Le_Forgeron schrieb:
> > Le 04/08/2009 19:29, Samour nous fit lire :
> >
> >> The beta release has expired as of August 1. Any idea when it may be extended?
> >> (clicking extend didn't work nor did attempts to comment out parts of the
> >> source to bypass the restriction)
> >>
> >
> > on source compile, export POVRAY_BETA=`povray --betacode`
> > it's all I need (until it became very old).
> >
> That's how it works on Unix (and therefore also Mac I'd guess), but on
> Windows, clicking "extend" *should* work (you need to wait 10 seconds of
> course before the button will become available).
>
> @Samour:
> I had no trouble extending the official beta.33 release, so maybe
> there's an incompatibility with the Intel compiler you're using?
> Or, maybe the source distribution has a bogus EXPIRE_AT defined in
> povray.h; it should be 1243807200 + DAYS(61).
>
> @Le_Forgeron:
> > Quick task summary (from web site), personal view:
> >  * isosurface, bounding box & threads : solved, close it
> >
> Did you try it with beta.33?
> >  * Function pattern in image map: it does not seems to work on my
> > compilation (source, linux 64 bits)
> >
> Can you elaborate? Again, is it actually beta.33 you're using? I thought
> the Linux code wasn't updated?

No I'm using beta 32 actually, the source for beta 33 isn't up yet right?
EXPIRE_AT is 1243807200. I'll add the + DAYS(61) and let you know if it works.

I tried increasing the value in the if statement slightly by replacing 366 with
400 (because it says it can't be extended to more than Dec 31):

if (_time32 (NULL) > EXPIRE_AT + DAYS(366))


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