"Samour" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> 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))

It works now with the change to EXPIRE_AT. Thanks.

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