Re: [Pan-users] Re: Better processing of very large groups?

[Travis]

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From: "Duncan" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 21:31 PM
Subject: [Pan-users] Re: Better processing of very large groups?


> "Travis" <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Thu, 02
> Jul 2009 19:18:45 -0700:
> 
>>> Our recent pan angel, K. Haley, has already included that change in
>>> his/her git archive (git://github.com/lostcoder/pan2.git) for which I
>>> once again send my thanks to him/her.
>> 
>> How do I get it into my Windows version of Pan?
> 
> Presumably, you'd find the patch (search bugzilla, and/or the list 
> archives for it), apply it to the pan sources, and recompile.
> 
> I have a script here with Gentoo that makes such patch application as 
> simple as dropping a file in a directory named for the package, in most 
> cases, which is nice when a new version of gcc came out and I'm trying to 
> recompile everything with it, and a lot of packages need patches that 
> aren't in the Gentoo tree just yet.  The tough part of course is finding 
> all the necessary patches, tho they're often in Gentoo's bugzilla 
> already, and if not, very often in other bugzillas (upstreams, Debian, 
> RedHat/Fedora, Novell/SuSE, etc).  That's the great thing about open 
> source -- the community works cooperatively enough that once one person 
> has the solution, it tends to spread to everyone else quickly enough, so 
> no one person or company has to do all the work.
> 
> But of course Gentoo isn't Windows.
> 
> Anyway, I think I saw one of the two guys that usually provide Windows 
> binaries, mention that they were going to apply the patches and see about 
> getting new Windows binaries out, too.  But I haven't seen the 
> announcement that they're actually available, yet.  So it's either grab 
> the patches, apply them and compile it yourself, or wait for them to do 
> it.

I also saw that the folk that provide the Windows version of Pan said 
he/she/they were going to add it, sometime.

So I take it the patch can't just be applied to Pan?
-- 
Travis in Shoreline Washington