Re: [mv] Serious limit in minivend 4 for malls, plus solution

[Mike Heins <mikeh@minivend.com>]

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Quoting Murray Gibbins (Murray@scotweb.ltd.uk):
> Using mv 4.0.4
> 
> I ran up to an internal limit in the number of strings i could have in a
> CommonAdjust directive.
> I got this error "Too many chained cost levels for item" .
> 
> This is a serious limit to the number of shops in a mall that can use complex
> pricing. Currently the mall I'm developing has 11 shops many more to come ( this
> is going to be the biggest e-mall in the country __MANIC_LAUGH__)
> 
> Solution
> ---------
> 
> Find the file Data.pm
> Goto line "if($its++ > 20) {", roughly at line number 1099
> Change the number upwards ( I've gone for 200 for now).
> 
> This really needs to be set via a configuration in the minivend.cfg file!!!
> 
> Has this been done in interchange?
> 
> If no one does it soon when I get time I'll upgrade to 4.0.4a fix it with a
> directive and submit a patch, however at the moment I'm very busy, what with the
> mall development and shipd, auto-shopping-mall generation scripts ( takes a few
> databases and turns them into shops in a mall, fully configuring minivend.cfg
> etc usefull for auto-generating 200 shops :-), works too! so far 20k lines of
> code, it even does nested ranges of products!) etc...
> 
> Yours
> 

I don't need personal copies of messages. This makes number 4 I have read. 8-(

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