[Zope-dev] multiple monkeypatches

[Jim Penny]

On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:51:45PM +0100, Adrian Hungate wrote:
> PatchKit handles this for you (If you ask it to).
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> Adrian...

I am not sure that I understand.  I need to be able to do a 
"cumulative monkey patch".  Suppose that there were two independent
products which both modified manage_main (without loss of generality,
say ExternalEditor and ZShell).  Most people use neither, some people
use one, some use the other, and some use both.

It is the case of people using both that I am interested in.  To do
this appears to me to require that I have access to the DTML form of
any previous monkey patches to manage_main so that I can decide
if I can safely patch the running version to meet the needs of both
products.

Is this possible?

If both products were using PatchKit would it be possible?  How about
if only one used PatchKit?

Thanks

Jim
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