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

[Duncan]

On Mon 21 Apr 2003 15:30, Christel & Dr. Frank Biendara posted as excerpted 
below:
> 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.

I'm not Charles, but having been on the list a bit, I can say I sort of doubt 
that's going to happen.  GNKSA certification tends to be fairly high priority 
here, and deliberately breaking it in published binary versions is going 
against a rather strongly supported policy.

There are four possible ways around that, that I can see.  Number four is 
something you should be able to do now...

One would be to ask the Debian package maintainer to make the fix for you.  
It's possible, but I can't say that it's likely.

Two, a compromise MIGHT be possible.  Charles, how about making the binary 
honor up to 8 connections as set in the config file, but simply not giving 
any way in the GUI to go above four?  That seems like perhaps a reasonable 
compromise.  Of course, I'm not making the decision, and perhaps GNKSA 
compliance won't let you do that either, but maybe..

Three.  Compiling the tarballs isn't TOO hard, PROVIDED Debian provides the 
appropriate devel packages.  If you were on Mdk, I'd be able to help you get 
them.  Perhaps someone on Debian can as well.  OTOH, I've never been able to 
successfully compile from CVS.  Something about the autoconf system 
conflicting or something.  I could probably do it if I took the time to go 
figure it all out, but it hasn't been THAT much of a priority.  I just wait 
for the official tarballs to come out and compile them or use the RPM if 
available.

Four.  Try setting up a second server.  There's nothing saying they have to 
ACTUALLY be different servers.  If you are quite active in two binary areas, 
you can split it by subject and go that way.  If not, but you have several 
newsgroups, try splitting them onto two different servers, and set one, then 
the other, running.  It's not as nice as virtual servers and virtual 
newsgroups, but that will come, in time, and this WILL allow you full use of 
the 8 connections.

I'm really looking forward to the time when PAN does virtuals as well.  
However, switching to a different db backend first could indeed considerably 
simplify things, so that's the major thing I'm waiting on now.  Perhaps that 
will be the next major project after scoring?  (The other thing we've all 
been waiting on is the long awaited day when PAN can do attachment posting, 
but that too will come.)

-- 
Duncan
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --
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