In article <3c4d834c$1@news.povray.org> , "Tom Melly" <tom### [at] tomandlucouk>
wrote:

> Are you always so rude?

No, just a bit annoyed that so many "bugs" that get reported are feature
requests from back in the 3.1 days or/and other real bugs suddenly get
reported for 3.5 while nobody bothered to report them for 3.1 or 3.0 or even
earlier also they always existed (and you can't tell me no-one using POV-Ray
all the time noticed).  And of course, everybody expects to get their pet
bug fixed in the next beta...

Then there are those nice complaints why this and that feature hasn't been
integrated and people completely seem to forget that 3.5 is (unfortunately)
much, much, much more than just taking some patch and adding it to the
official source code.  It includes to find and fix all those bugs and
restrictions of those patches and to find solutions.  All this is then of
course expected to be done in no time and soon there are threads (even
outside news.povray.org) by people who complain that the beta period takes
"so long" also only half the time the 3.1 beta took passed so far.

In the middle of that one then has to start explaining why a particular
behavior is no bug but by design.  And the endless arguing is what really
takes so much time because one constantly has to check the source code to
make sure what is said is really correct.  Not that it takes much to start
the argument, just find some example that doesn't work as you expect and
call it a bug - someone will the be forced to look into it :-(

    Thorsten

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