"Chris Cason" <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote in 
message news:48d700f7@news.povray.org...
> Jim Holsenback wrote:
>> I did change ALL distro scenes that called any glass textures the old 
>> way.
>
> I think you missed woodbox.pov then:] (either that or I didn't update
> it for some reason).

I still have modified scenes on my system and it (woodbox.pov) looks like 
it's been done on my end. I connected to the ftp site and in 
jim/scenes/advanced woodbox.pov has been changed as well.

> While I'd like to see a warning issued, the problem would be that
> anyone with a pre-3.7 scene loading the include file (even if they
> don't use the glass textures) would get the warning ... I expect some
> scenes out there do include files that they don't use, and would thus
> get this warning. Also, anyone running an old scene without a #version
> set would get a parse failure on the missing textures.
>
> I think we need to provide both for the meantime. Perhaps we also then
> need something like the 'deprecated' warning that is available in
> compilers; we can declare something deprecated (via SDL) and if it is
> used in a scene the parser spits out a warning.
>
> -- Chris

Perhaps I jumped the gun abit. Things were flying pretty fast and when I 
floated the idea of addressing this issue it didn't seem that anyone had any 
strong feelings one way or another, so I pulled the trigger. If I could have 
a few days to think about how to address this to everyones satisfaction I'd 
like to take ownership of putting this issue to rest. In the meantime if 
there are anymore specific considerations I should be aware of ..... let 'em 
fly!

Cheers

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