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

[Jerome Alet]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Steve Alexander wrote:

> 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".

Perhaps you could tell me if I have to use the App.Hotfixes interface or
not when doing such a not-Hotfix thing.

Thanks in advance.

Jerome Alet