[Zope] External Method reloading

[DA Loeffler]

On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:

> have you ever investigated writing a real python product? it seems to me 
> that you're taking external methods a tad too far and you would get much 
> more mileage out af a full python product.
> 
> jens
> 

I know; in fact this was set up as a product initially, using the
astoundingly useful Refresh mechanism, but my bosses are somewhat cagey
about allowing access to the products directory on the UoB production
Zope servers, so I had to write it as a family of External Methods that
could live in the Extensions directory.

David

> 
> On Monday, August 5, 2002, at 06:24 , DA Loeffler wrote:
> 
> > Is there some magic incantation I can call that will cause all my
> > External Methods to reload themselves? I have a number of External
> > Methods that act as factories for classes defined externally, all of
> > which are subclassed from a single base class, and when I change this
> > base class I have to reload each method separately, which is irritating.
> > Does anyone know a workaround for this?
> >
> >
> > David Loeffler
> > University of Bristol
> 
>