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Opened by Thorsten Fröhlich - 2010-06-20
Last edited by Jim Holsenback - 2010-06-20
FS#141 - Document changed behavior processing INI files
The documentation assumes that INI files (as well as the command line!) are parsed and processed instantly. This no longer holds true for POV-Ray 3.7, where parsing INI files (and the command line) and processing it are separate operations that occur at different times. As such, one consequence is that INI file options only take effect after reading the whole INI file, and possibly later.
As such, documentation statements such as <http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/3.6.1/222/>
“Note: that these options take effect immediately when specified. Obviously any error or warning messages that might occur before the option is read will not be affected.”
Are no longer correct. It needs to be explained that options only take effect after the INI file has been read. An error in the INi file causes other options _not_ to take effect because reading of the INi file is aborted prematurely.
It’s been changed: http://wiki.povray.org/content/Documentation:Reference_Section_1.3#Console_Text_Output
I’m curious why this was entered as a bug when creating a talk page on the Wiki (with the corrected text) would have been simpler. The recent increase in bandwidth on this bugtracker has made it tedious to separate the wheat from the chaff. Stuff like this works better for me over on the Wiki
Good question. I think it is because I am more a fan of bug trackers than of wikis
Or actually, I am more familiar with the former...