Jim Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:42:02 +0000:
> On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:52:15 +0000, Duncan wrote: > >>> On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:50:06 -0700, Peter Scott wrote: >>> >>>> Is there any automated assistance available? >>> >>> Nope. New pan and Old pan are completely different. >> >> Well, not /completely/. Some of the files are the same, some >> different. > > True, all good points, too - I'd forgotten about the scorefile > similarities. I was thinking more the databases. Yea... scorefile (mostly) the same, but it pays to manually fix it up as I said anyway. Databases absolutely different, but the payoff is **MUCH** more efficient memory management from pan. The config files, different altho a few of the settings will look familiar, but they really have to be different, because pan's server and newsgroup organization is vastly different now. The cache files... the same, and it'll save some work/time redownloading if you have a big cache, but the part I missed to say is that because the database is different, you have to redownload overviews in ordered to actually /see/ what's cached. Still, not having to actually redownload the messages themselves is nice. Something else I didn't say... while there are some new features, definitely better for those who do multiserver (due to automated handling) and/or binaries (due to the vastly better memory handling), and/ or text if you want to archive the posts in-group "forever" because they no longer expire locally when the server expires them, there are a few missing features, and a few features that just work differently. One of the biggest missing features for which there is as yet no replacement (other than running a local server such as leafnode, programming it to automate it, and having pan connect to it) is the rules that allowed such (optional) things as auto-delete of killed messages, auto-mark-read of negative-scored messages, and auto-download of watched (and if desired other score zones, high, medium, etc) messages. The other often requested feature is a way to categorize groups, made possible by setting up different servers in old-pan, before pan automated server handling. I did explain the work-around for that, running separate pan instances using the PAN_HOME environmental variable to point to the appropriate config for that instance. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
