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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: POV-Ray version 3.7 released
Date: 8 Nov 2013 12:03:21
Message: <527d1959@news.povray.org>
On Fri, 08 Nov 2013 20:43:08 +1100, Chris Cason wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> After many years of beta-testing, POV-Ray 3.7 has been officially
> released. Please see http://www.povray.org/download/ for the final
> downloads (which currently are only for Windows).
> 
> Source code is released under the AGPL3 and is available via our github
> repository: https://github.com/POV-Ray/povray/tree/3.7-stable
> 
> Thanks to all the developers, documentation wranglers, beta-testers,
> bug reporters, scene authors, contributors and supporters who made this
> possible.
> 
> regards,
> 
> -- Chris Cason
>    POV-Ray Team Co-ordinator

Congrats on the release, Chris & Team!

Jim


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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: POV-Ray version 3.7 released
Date: 8 Nov 2013 13:20:01
Message: <web.527d2b33289dc950352a052d0@news.povray.org>
Chris Cason <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> After many years of beta-testing, POV-Ray 3.7 has been officially
> released. Please see http://www.povray.org/download/ for the final
> downloads (which currently are only for Windows).
>
> Source code is released under the AGPL3 and is available via our
> github repository: https://github.com/POV-Ray/povray/tree/3.7-stable
>
> Thanks to all the developers, documentation wranglers, beta-testers,
> bug reporters, scene authors, contributors and supporters who made
> this possible.
>
> regards,
>
> -- Chris Cason
>    POV-Ray Team Co-ordinator

woohooo!

ready the bottles of champagne, gentleman!

thumbs up


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From: Doctor John
Subject: Re: POV-Ray version 3.7 released
Date: 8 Nov 2013 13:28:29
Message: <527d2d4d@news.povray.org>
On 08/11/13 09:43, Chris Cason wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> After many years of beta-testing, POV-Ray 3.7 has been officially
> released. Please see http://www.povray.org/download/ for the final
> downloads (which currently are only for Windows).
> 
> Source code is released under the AGPL3 and is available via our
> github repository: https://github.com/POV-Ray/povray/tree/3.7-stable
> 
> Thanks to all the developers, documentation wranglers, beta-testers,
> bug reporters, scene authors, contributors and supporters who made
> this possible.
> 
> regards,
> 
> -- Chris Cason
>    POV-Ray Team Co-ordinator
> 

Yeehah!! have just downloaded and compiled it on a vanilla Suse 12.3.

Excellent work, gentlemen

John
-- 
Protect the Earth
It was not given to you by your parents
You hold it in trust for your children


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From: ingo
Subject: Re: POV-Ray version 3.7 released
Date: 8 Nov 2013 17:31:15
Message: <XnsA272EF441F348seed7@news.povray.org>
in news:527cb3bf@news.povray.org Chris Cason wrote:

Chris, Team,

Thank you!

Due to circumstances I havn't been able to contribute or even follow 
development, I envy your stamina in getting it done. Nice to see it on 
github.

Ingo


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From: Jaime Vives Piqueres
Subject: Re: POV-Ray version 3.7 released
Date: 9 Nov 2013 07:46:16
Message: <527e2e98$1@news.povray.org>
Congrats, and many thanks, guys... your toughness is awesome (special 
thanks to Chris for his almost "lifelong" devotion to POV-Ray).

Well, I think this is worth a comeback from semi-retirement... and a 
bunch of celebration renders!

--
Jaime


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From: Nekar Xenos
Subject: Re: POV-Ray version 3.7 released
Date: 9 Nov 2013 12:30:05
Message: <op.w6alkascufxv4h@xena>
On Fri, 08 Nov 2013 20:19:31 +0200, nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:


> woohooo!
>
You took the words right out of my mouth!

-- 
-Nekar Xenos-


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From: MichaelJF
Subject: Re: POV-Ray version 3.7 released
Date: 9 Nov 2013 13:30:01
Message: <web.527e7f24289dc950c0e1b0820@news.povray.org>
Sorry, I think that I have to play a little bit the devils advocat here. Yes, we

number now. For example the +c issue is not solved as stated. Thomas and I has
found problemns  with it
(http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3C5239bc36%40news.povray.org%3E/)
never addressed by the three Christophs developing POV, but only ignored. For me
this is only RC 8, but not an final solution,

Best regards,
Michael


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: POV-Ray version 3.7 released
Date: 9 Nov 2013 14:23:05
Message: <527e8b99$1@news.povray.org>
On 08/11/2013 10:09 AM, Stephen wrote:
>
> Thank you and everyone concerned with this. :-D

Oops! I got an exception and a crash when running Tim Nikias'a LSSM file 
lssm_wlk.pov, from http://www.nolights.de/downloads.html#lssm

If you did not get the dump, I still have the files.

Sorry. :-(

BTW I changed nothing in the file, not even using a #version statement.
And I did run flow.pov okay.

-- 
Regards
     Stephen


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From: clipka
Subject: Re: POV-Ray version 3.7 released
Date: 10 Nov 2013 08:31:41
Message: <527f8abd@news.povray.org>
Am 09.11.2013 19:29, schrieb MichaelJF:
> Sorry, I think that I have to play a little bit the devils advocat here. Yes, we

> number now. For example the +c issue is not solved as stated. Thomas and I has
> found problemns  with it
>
(http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3C5239bc36%40news.povray.org%3E/)
> never addressed by the three Christophs developing POV, but only ignored. For me
> this is only RC 8, but not an final solution,

Reports of the +C bug appeared only a short time ago, while we had 
already begun the last preparations for the actual release (which had 
virtually nothing to do with changes to the code; stuff like making the 
switch to the new license, setting up the Git repository, and other such 
stuff).

It seems that in this last phase, povray.beta-test hasn't been read by 
any of the developers on a regular basis, so we weren't even aware of 
these +C artifacts and their severity; from what I see now they would 
indeed have warranted halting the release process.

It should be mentioned that while povray.beta-test is a good place to 
discuss /suspected/ issues, the most reliable way of communicating 
/identified/ issues is via http://bugs.povray.org. New entries there 
trigger an email to the members of the dev team.


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: POV-Ray version 3.7 released
Date: 10 Nov 2013 10:07:34
Message: <527fa136$1@news.povray.org>
On 10-11-2013 14:31, clipka wrote:
> Reports of the +C bug appeared only a short time ago, while we had
> already begun the last preparations for the actual release (which had
> virtually nothing to do with changes to the code; stuff like making the
> switch to the new license, setting up the Git repository, and other such
> stuff).
>
> It seems that in this last phase, povray.beta-test hasn't been read by
> any of the developers on a regular basis, so we weren't even aware of
> these +C artifacts and their severity; from what I see now they would
> indeed have warranted halting the release process.
>
> It should be mentioned that while povray.beta-test is a good place to
> discuss /suspected/ issues, the most reliable way of communicating
> /identified/ issues is via http://bugs.povray.org. New entries there
> trigger an email to the members of the dev team.
>

Yes, I forgot to file a bug report indeed, so I take the blunt impact of 
the responsibility :-)

I shall try to reproduce the problem. However, I have not noticed it in 
any of my later renders, since my mention of it. So, it may be fairly 
difficult to do, especially to make it reproducible. :-(

Thomas


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