I downloaded the new POV-Ray 3.5.1 Public Release Candidate 1 (build 
0181), but it won't finish launching. I've sent in a bug report, but I 
thought I'd ask here in case anyone had a workaround that would allow 
build 181 to finish launching.

At the end of the launch proceses as it beings to load the POVMSLib 
(Initializing POV-Ray Library), POV-Ray produces a dialog which claims:

  This install of POV-Ray is incomplete or damaged. You have to
  reinstall POV-Ray.

  Some files required to run POV-Ray are missing. You should not 
  move or remove parts inside the POV-Ray folder.

Which, clearly, I haven't - it being a fresh download and all.

This behavior occurs whether I double click the alias or the application 
itself. And it occurs whether I drag a file to the alias/application 
icon or double click a file that's been associated to POV-Ray.

At first blush, I would assume that there is a problem with the 
download, but since I haven't seen any reports here of problems with the 
download, it seems more likely that the issue is mine.

And yet there is altogether nothing particular odd about my installation 
(with Dec 2003 Dev Tools) other than the fact I have /Users mounted on a 
different volume than /. I can't imagine that would make much difference 
in the launch process when compared to the released 3.5 build 0173.

Launching in Classic leads directly to a crash without any error dialog 
as it finishes (appearances only - it's at about the same point in the 
process that, from using 3.5 the last few weeks, I'd expect POV-Ray to 
dismiss the splash screen) initializing the POV-Ray Library.

Any suggestions?

-Charles
 Euonymic Soltuions

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