-----Original Message----- From: Bill Anderson [mailto:bill@immosys.com]

As I said, I am merely attempting to summarize what I see happening. there is a clear distinction between the method used by the 'hotfixes' and patching the source code, and restarting the server. It seems to be this distinction that has brought us here. The authors of the Online Patches felt there was a need for the distinction, and one has expressed why; hence why they chose the hotfix term. As I thought about it, I saw theneed is there, and that we should address it early.

The reason for the distinction is that few other suites like Zope have the capability to do online changes the way Zope does. As a result,, we *should* express that capability, and doing so by establishing a bit of jargon to differentiate between tthese two mehtods is a subtle, yet powerful tool provided we do it eary in the game, so to speak. I have a gut feeling we will see more of these Online Patches. What better way to showcase this feature than a classification system?

PHBs love to hear things can be done online. :)

Bill, I could be missing something, but the HotFixes (such as mine) install just like any other Zope product and do require a Zope restart. Likewise, if you change httpd.conf in apache, you must restart apache. Troy