[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope] [PATCH] to Zope's Management Interface

Steve Alexander steve@cat-box.net
Mon, 29 Apr 2002 14:25:31 +0100


Hannu Krosing wrote:
>
>>As always any comment is very welcome.
> 
> Have you thougth of making this a Hotfix instead of patch ?

Please don't call this a "hotfix". That term is reserved for products 
that fix important bugs (especially security bugs) in Zope.

A product can dynamically patch things, using the same mechanism as a 
Hotfix. However, use of this mechanism does not qualify a product as a 
Hotfix.

The terms "monkeypatch" and "dynamic patch" have been used to describe 
this mechanism. Please use one of these in preference to "Hotfix".

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Steve Alexander