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28 Apr 2024 20:46:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV-Ray v3.8.0-alpha.9811560  
From: Kenneth
Date: 1 Sep 2018 22:30:01
Message: <web.5b8b4a3cc46e580da47873e10@news.povray.org>
clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 01.09.2018 um 22:09 schrieb Kenneth:

> > I'm still just a little confused about this: I have an older 3.7.1 beta
> > release...
> >              3.7.1-beta.4+msvc14.win64
> > ..... that *AFAIK* is supposed to be installed into "an existing 3.7.0 binary"
> > (piggybacked, in other words.) I just tested this again, and the scheme works.
>
> - Says who?
> - How do you install it into "an existing 3.7.0 [installation]"?

I did the usual trick of removing (sequestering) the original 3.7.0 pvengine64
file and simply dropping in the beta4 version of the file instead (all within
the 3.7.0 folder, or rather 3.7; I also have a separate 3.7 beta 9 folder.)
Seems to run just fine. I don't *remember* it being a 'stand-alone'/installable
version when I downloaded it. (I *hope* that I would have noticed that!) But
I'll take another look at the Github download page for the beta4 version, to see
if I screwed up.

I guess you mean that the beta4 is/was supposed to be a 'complete' standalone
install, like 3.7.1 beta 9.  Makes me wonder why or how it works in my scheme,
when apparently it shouldn't!  (BTW, I did double-check the running program to
make sure it IS beta4 that I'm running. AND to make sure that the beta4 engine
is indeed in my 3.7 folder and not in my 3.7 beta 9 folder by mistake.)


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