Username size limitations

heya

I just wanted to know if there was any explanation  about having the username 
length fixed to 16 as said in include/mysql_com.h :

include/mysql_com.h:#define USERNAME_LENGTH 16


This kinda bugs me for one of my application where i need way bigger logins. 
I've tried recompiling with USERNAME_LENGTH defined to 80 but mysql keeps 
segfaulting.

At first, before going into the code i thought it was dynamic, following the 
user table's User field size but it doesn't obviously.
Any insight on why and if there's no particular reason, any idea why it's not 
being worked on to be more flexible ?

Maybe it's in the TODO list but i've just tried 4.0.12 and it's the same.. 

Thanks in advance


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