seb bacon wrote:
Pros - a tiny performance gain Cons - unpredictable interaction with future products;
I'd rephrase that as a pro: Ability to work with products of the future, without the need to understand their inner workings...
not a well-known method of distributing products;
Urm... that I gotta disagree with... Tehre are now many such products for Zope...
not easily discoverable
What do you mean by discoverable?
But perhaps my 'cons' are misplaced? Mostly, I'm uneasy that someone looking at ZPublisher code would have no way of knowing that CallProfiler hooks into it if it were monkeypatched.
Yeah they would, 'cos CallProfiler will be well documented beforeit hits a release and will onyl come into play if explicity enabled. And if you explicitly enable it, you should read the documentation first... cheers, Chris