This has come up on a number of occasions - the problem is that an external method can subvert all the protections and access control that Zope provides. Having said that, there's nothing stopping you (or someone else) writing an external method that allows you to edit external methods. :) Anthony
Robin Becker wrote Are there any plans to upgrade the External Methods product to allow remote management ie creation/deletion/modification of the file texts? I ask because a major advantage of Zope is the ability to manage at a distance and this is not possible for External Methods. I can see easy fudges using a hack of fsimport, but something based on the existing external methods would be better.
More generally how can one upgrade a Zope product remotely; assuming this were possible it would be nice to be able to remotely shut down Zope and get it to restart. -- Robin Becker
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