----- Original Message ----- From: "Duncan" <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> To: <pan-users@nongnu.org> Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 21:31 PM Subject: [Pan-users] Re: Better processing of very large groups?
> "Travis" <travis.shorel...@gmail.com> posted > ee3985f694f44887a37b26eac04af...@travispc, 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 _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
