23 Aug
2001
23 Aug
'01
7:55 p.m.
From: Bill Anderson <anderson@hp.com>
It is very important for the distinctin to be made. Consider the new reporter, who has seen ZC/DC issue security fixes, labelling them Hotfixes. Now imagine what happens when they see a list of fifteen, twenty, thirty 'hotfixes', what are they going to assume?
OK, so what do we call them? Monkey patches? ;) To my mind, a "Product" adds functionality to Zope, it doesn't change some core behavior (thought there are products out there that do, like ZDebug). So I suggest we need a way to distinguish these types of hotfix-methodology based products. Or a subclass of Product... I can't think of a good name. Patch would again imply fixing something...