[Grok-dev] Re: LocalUtility Woes

[Jan-Wijbrand Kolman]

Kevin Smith wrote:
> Perhaps I'm missing something.
> 
> AFAIK if a new LocalUtility or Index needs to be added to the 
> Application object, I need
> to delete it and re-create it.
> 
> This is a real PITA. Without any solid export/import mechanisms in place 
> this means having
> to wait until the application is "perfect", or creating yet another 
> adhoc export/import
> mechanism. IMO this kills the precepts of Agile development and 
> Evolvability.
> 
> So, is there anything that prevents some kind of "re-evaluation" of a 
> grok.Application at startup
> to allow addition and removal of local utilities and catalog indexes?

Not sure, but, would

http://svn.zope.org/zope.app.generations/trunk/src/zope/app/generations/

help in these cases?

regards,
jw