[Zope] Ruling from the bench regarding 'Hotfixes' :)

[Farrell, Troy]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Anderson [mailto:bill@immosys.com]
> 
> As I said, I am merely attempting to summarize what I see happening.
> there is a clear distinction between the method used by the 'hotfixes'
> and patching the source code, and restarting the server. It 
> seems to be
> this distinction that has brought us here. The authors of the Online
> Patches felt there was a need for the distinction, and one 
> has expressed
> why; hence why they chose the hotfix term. As I thought about 
> it, I saw
> theneed is there, and that we should address it early.
> 
> The reason for the distinction is that few other suites like Zope have
> the capability to do online changes the way Zope does. As a 
> result,, we
> *should* express that capability, and doing so by 
> establishing a bit of
> jargon to differentiate between tthese two mehtods is a subtle, yet
> powerful tool provided we do it eary in the game, so to 
> speak. I have a
> gut feeling we will see more of these Online Patches. What 
> better way to
> showcase this feature than a classification system?
> 
> PHBs love to hear things can be done online. :)
>

Bill, I could be missing something, but the HotFixes (such as mine) install
just like any other Zope product and do require a Zope restart.  Likewise,
if you change httpd.conf in apache, you must restart apache.

Troy