On 25 Jan 2011, at 18:54, Benoit Chesneau wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Filipe David Manana
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Benoit Chesneau <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> shouldn't MAX_RETRY be a config setting ?
>>> 
>> 
>> If there are many people who wish the value for MAX_RETRIES to be
>> configurable, then yes. Only left as a constant to avoid increasing
>> the size of our .ini configuration.
>> 
> There are cases where you want to reduce retries, or in the contrary
> increasing them. For example when you go in offline mode or work with
> moving machines (mobiles to mobiles) . So I guess yes, having it as a
> setting would be useful. And 10 is a pretty high number for a default
> I think.

Adding config variables for this is an easy patch. We've had plenty of
variable that started out as a constant, I don't see a problem with making
this one configurable.

Why do you think 10 is high? What do you suggest and why?

Cheers
Jan
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