Re: [Pan-users] Virtuell newsgroups and concurrent connections

[Charles Kerr]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 12:30:19AM +0200, Christel & Dr. Frank Biendara wrote:
> Charles Kerr schrieb:
>>
>> Four is a GNKSA limit.  To go higher you need to change
>> DEFAULT_MAX_PER_SERVER in server-ui.c and recompile.
> 
> I'm a Linux newbie and at the moment I use Debian and it's famous 
> packetmanagement system. So I don't compile. It would be great if you 
> can add this feature in the server preferences in one of the next releases.
> 
> Cheers Frank

Hi Frank,

As I said, four is a GNKSA limit, so releasing a version of Pan with
a higher number would go against Pan's GNKSA `Seal of Approval'.
If you want to go higher, you'll need to build a copy of Pan yourself.

IIRC, this is the patch you need to make:

Index: server-ui.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gnome/pan/pan/server-ui.c,v
retrieving revision 1.36
diff -u -u -r1.36 server-ui.c
--- server-ui.c 28 Mar 2003 16:24:42 -0000      1.36
+++ server-ui.c 22 Apr 2003 14:39:10 -0000
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@
        GtkWidget * l;
        ServerEditDialog * d;
        int row;
-       const int DEFAULT_MAX_PER_SERVER = 4;
+       const int DEFAULT_MAX_PER_SERVER = 8;

        d = g_new0 (ServerEditDialog, 1);

cheers,
Charles