This is a 'feature' of the product initialization process. Note that I am just documenting buginess here, I should try to fix this when possible. When a Product can't be initialized (a syntax error, a bad import, whatever), sometimes it will revert back to the state at which it wrote a good *.pyc file and continue along its merry way without giving you any indication there is a problem. Two things: Turn on the STUPID_LOG_FILE. Its contents will show you problems during problem initialization. See http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Misc/LOGGING.txt for more info. Scan the mail list archives for STUPID if this howto doesn't suit you (seriously!) When you really, truly want to refresh a product, delete the product from the control_panel and restart. I *think* that updating version.txt in the product folder has the same effect.

-----Original Message----- From: Seb Bacon [mailto:seb.bacon@razorfish.co.uk] Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 1:57 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] ZOBD caching products?

Ladies and gentlemen,

Some time ago I wrote to the list to ask for help on a product reloading issue. I'm still banging my head against it now, so i'm restating the problem again in the hope someone can help:

I have a very simple product (and it works!) Any changes I make don't get reflected in the product, so... 1) I change the function name in order to break it on purpose 2) I stop and restart Zope (or use the refresh product) ...and... 3) Zope thinks the product still works ?!?!£?"$""

This behaviour exhibits itself in Zope 2.1.6 *and* 2.2.0. Since no-one else ever seems to have had this problem, I can only assume I am doing something wrong at a "doh!" basic level. Sounds to me like the product is getting cached in the ZOBD. I'm only a poor newbie, so I don't really know where to go from here in order to debug the problem.

Any clues????

Thanks, Seb.

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