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Thank you very much for the phantastic povray raytracer and for the open beta
test versions.
But why expiration dates that make life so complicated?
First, I don't like seconds of waiting before the "extend" button appears.
And even worse: Extending the expiration date of pov3.7beta25 doesn't work on
w2k,
it crashes with an program-error.
I don't liked to change my system date every time I start the beta.
So I installed a tool "datecrck". Works fine...
Why not simply have a message box "you use an old beta", click ok and all is
fine for the next 7 days...
:-)
Thank you
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Physiker <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> But why expiration dates that make life so complicated?
It seems that people will never be happy, no matter what is done.
It's beta. It's not a release version. Live with it. You don't have to
use it if it bothers you so much.
--
- Warp
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> Thank you very much for the phantastic povray raytracer and for the open beta
> test versions.
>
> But why expiration dates that make life so complicated?
>
> First, I don't like seconds of waiting before the "extend" button appears.
>
> And even worse: Extending the expiration date of pov3.7beta25 doesn't work on
> w2k,
> it crashes with an program-error.
>
> I don't liked to change my system date every time I start the beta.
> So I installed a tool "datecrck". Works fine...
>
Oh dear god. This topic has been done to death for *years*. It *won't*
change.
> Why not simply have a message box "you use an old beta", click ok and
> all is fine for the next 7 days...
Because then you would run it all the time. The whole point of the
expiration is *discouraging* people from running the beta other than
for.. beta testing.
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Physiker wrote:
> But why expiration dates that make life so complicated?
Because otherwise people would continue to use the Beta long after the
official release of 3.7, and continue to report bugs that have already
been fixed.
Or, alternately, they would continue to use the beta as if it were a
release build, and forget that it is, by definition, buggy.
--
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...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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"Warp" <war### [at] tag povrayorg> wrote in message
news:4812f6a1@news.povray.org...
> Physiker <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>> But why expiration dates that make life so complicated?
> It's beta. It's not a release version. Live with it. You don't have to
> use it if it bothers you so much.
I would have those 4 sentences in the beta splash screens as the program
opens. ;)
~Steve~
>
> --
> - Warp
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