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1 Sep 2024 16:15:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Announce: Megapov MCP 0.7.0.1  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 5 Mar 2001 09:27:35
Message: <3AA3A252.1A2AF128@gmx.de>
Ron Parker wrote:
> 
> You do not recall correctly, if I may be so blunt.  MegaPOV is Nathan's
> pile o' patches plus the late unlamented Superpatch, which combined lots of
> single independent patches into one.  There was another patch prior to
> that (and prior to 3.1 as well) which combined a half-dozen or so independent
> patches as well, but I've forgotten its name.  When I made the first
> Superpatch I picked over what was in the prior collection, but I didn't keep
> everything.  Probably the single most important contribution I made with the
> Superpatch was to port pre-3.1 patches to work with 3.1.

Ok, thanks for pointing that out, i was't very sure about the details. 

> 
> >Since Nathan Kopp and others seem to be quite busy these days, there were
> >not many new additions in Megapov (0.7 was mainly bug fixes) in the last
> >time.
> 
> Yeah, for some reason he seems to think the official 3.5 is more important.
> Go figure.
> 

Of course, if it sounded like complaint, that wasn't intended.

Christoph

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Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
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