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28 Jul 2024 14:22:39 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Old README file  
From: Quietman
Date: 29 Nov 2008 18:55:04
Message: <4931d658$1@news.povray.org>
I think you are missing something very important about 
povray-src-3.7.0.beta.29.tar.bz2 .......

BETA

"Nicolas Alvarez" <nic### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message 
news:4930a5d5@news.povray.org...
> I think I had said this before, but now I can't find my post, so I'll 
> assume
> I didn't :)
>
> The README file in povray-src-3.7.0.beta.29.tar.bz2 is still from 3.6. 
> This
> is misleading.
>
> When I opened it, I quickly skipped a few sections. Then I read stuff
> like "The source distribution of POV-Ray 3.6 is bundled with all the
> 3rd-party libraries which provide support for various image format such as
> JPEG, PNG, and TIFF. The ZLIB library is also provided since the PNG
> library depends on it."
>
> And I thought, what the hell? I'm sure the image libraries weren't bundled
> in 3.7 anymore. Looked around a bit, couldn't find the libs. Then noticed
> the paragraph said "distribution of POV-Ray *3.6*" :)


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