[Zope-dev] Patching Zope Products .. next Question

[marc lindahl]

Would this approach be appropriate?

http://dev.zope.org/Members/Caseman/Dynamic_HotFix_News/Dynamic_Hotfix

> From: "Ulrich Eck" <ueck@net-labs.de>
> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 19:33:15 +0200
> To: "ZOPE-DEV Mailingliste" <zope-dev@zope.org>
> Subject: [Zope-dev] Patching Zope Products .. next Question
> 
>> can I do this with:
>> --
>> import Products.CMFCore.PortalContent
>> 
>> <<define myclass here >>
>> 
>> InitializeClass(<<myclass>>)
>> Products.CMFCore.PortalContent.PortalContent = <<myclass>>
>> --
> 
> ok this works but there is another tricky thing now ...
> 
> I need to patch two products: CMFCore and CMFDefault.
> 
> first i patch CMFCore and I think this works (at least a portalfolder
> is a customizerfolder :)
> 
> I have now 2 new Classes PortalFolder and PortalContent ..
> 
> but 
> 
> the CMFDefault.Document for example is still subclassed from
> CMFCore.PortalContent (the default) and therefore doesn't behave
> like a dataskin ..
> 
> any ideas ?
> 
> is the order in wich the modules are loaded known or changeable ??
> 
> if this doesn't work .. I need to release the patches as diffs or tarballs
> replacing CMFDefault and Core .. not as nice as just patching them ..
> 
> thanks
> 
> Ulrich Eck
> 
> 
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