POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Hello again : Re: Hello again Server Time
6 Oct 2024 07:44:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Hello again  
From: clipka
Date: 1 Aug 2015 18:20:15
Message: <55bd461f$1@news.povray.org>
Am 13.07.2015 um 18:14 schrieb Nekar Xenos:
> On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 00:24:55 +0200, clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>
>> Am 11.07.2015 um 09:48 schrieb Orchid Win7 v1:
>>> On 11/07/2015 05:44 AM, clipka wrote:
>>>> The problem is, someone changed some of those precision-related
>>>> constants during the early stages of 3.7 development for obscure
>>>> reasons, and now nobody seems to know what the right values are.
>>>
>>> What, no source control?
>>
>> Not in the early (read: way before beta) stages of 3.7 development, no.
>>
>
> Wouldn't it be in the 3.6 code?

The problem isn't so much what the original values were (although that 
in itself might turn out to be a rather tedious task by now, as files 
have been moved around, functions renamed, and so forth), but which of 
the changes that have been made since then are legit and which are just 
relics of blind tweaking.


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