Given that Apophysis 2.08beta has been released, and 2.07beta is now
no longer functional, Apo-using developers of sheep for the Electric
Sheep project are now scrambling. As a response, I posted the
following message to the Woosie forums in the Apophysis developer
area. Anyone is eligible for the bounty - not just the official
Apophysis developers. Scott and I have donated the bounty.

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I have a proposition for developers regarding a Sheep-Developer
version of Apophysis. Clearly, Apo is diverging from the flam3
baseline in many ways, and it is more of a branch of the flam3 code
than a further development at this point. So, if possible, I'd like to
commission a version of Apo 2.07 that does not expire, and comes
bundled with either plugins or hard-coded variations that match the
output of flam3, v 2.7.14. This way, people who have come to love Apo
for designing sheep and flames, but will eventually render with the
flam3 engine, will have a version that they can play with and not
worry about incompatible images, or features that aren't supported, etc.

A bounty of $200 is offered for this version of Apophysis. This
doesn't just mean giving us 2.07 without the time limit - this means
regression testing with a set of flames that we've put together. No
new features would be required other than supporting the variations in
2.7.14.

Comments?
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Erik Reckase
flam3dev