In article <3df2a350$1@news.povray.org> , "Tony[B]" <ben### [at] catholicorg>
wrote:

> I don't think that that's any reason to completely discount the fact that
> perhaps a newer version provides an easier to read equivalent with perhaps
> better performance.

Note some functions in 2.8 have not been modified since 2.1 or earlier.

Nevertheless, your argument is valid that one should always use recent
versions of libraries in the general case (also not this one).  We do this
for all external image support libraries, for example.

    Thorsten

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