Bidwatcher port

[Ceri Davies]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 02:18:47AM -0700, Annelise Anderson wrote:
> 
> 	The bidwatcher ports seems to get updated by David O'Brien
> without any notification to this list--which is fine; I'd just thought
> if a port were changed it would show up here.
> 
> 	But I write to ask for a change in the TIMEFUDGE stuff--if left
> alone a snipe will be placed five minutes before the time requested, not
> AT THE TIME you requested.  Thus I always have to edit the Makefile (since
> I don't want my bid to go in five minutes in advance.  It's not hard to
> change, it's just that I forget to do so and this five minute fudge seems
> to take away the very point of the program, which is to make a bid so
> late others cannot respond.  So could we have the TIMEFUGDE set at 0
> rather than 300 seconds?  I try to remember to edit the Makefile to do so
> but don't always remember.  The program offers a range around 20 seconds,
> which is the basic idea.

Could you not simply set TIMEFUDGE=x in your /etc/make.conf?

Ceri
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