yes "pull" is the option (and word) i'm searching for, thanks!
np :)
Doesn't this collide with some security concepts?
Oh yeah, totally clashes with security. And that's why I wanted to se eif other people were interested so that we can discuss security issues. If I'm the only one using it, I'll secure it in other ways.
i don't know how EMs are imported into / used in Zope. Maybe the problem (if not using os.system and Co) is to get the source of the module directly from inside Zope, but i don't know.
The problem I see here is that even if we can get the code from running Zope or even modify the code in a running Zope, I don't think Zope is "outfitted" to commit these changes to disk the way I'd like. I debated between modifying the "Product" class (and the ExternalMethod class) ... or just hacking ZSyncer using os calls to get filesystem access. The former is more ambitious. The latter is faster ... so I chose the latter ... Ziniti