[Zope] Re: Product refreshing in Zope 2.9

[Florent Guillaume]

Peter Bengtsson wrote:
> On 1/31/06, Jens Vagelpohl <jens-G0EXMjp3EnnNLxjTenLetw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> On 31 Jan 2006, at 12:02, Peter Bengtsson wrote:
>>>> That's why I, like others in this thread, don't care about refresh.
>>>>
>>> Like I mentioned elsewhere, with my setup, restarting zope is gravely
>>> inferior to zope-restart for product development.
>>>
>>> I'm happy to share my setup to Open Source but it's quite "personal"
>>> so I'd have to spend as much time explaining it as I have spent
>>> writing it.
>>> Hmm... perhaps a screencast?
>> I don't think there is any need for that. The situation is pretty
>> simple: You have an itch, but no one cares enough to scratch it for
>> you. The only sane way forward is for you to scratch the itch yourself.
>>
> But that's what I'm doing!
> Thanks to Dieter I've got som genuine technical help on what it might
> be instead of just people saying "that's not how I do it, give up"
> 
> And I don't understand how Zope product refresh doesn't have a higher
> attention priority when it's so useful.

Refresh works well in limited situations, but it *cannot work* if you have 
global registries or many interrelated modules.

> As far as I know, it's the
> only way to make changes to a zope2 product without having to restart
> the server causing downtime and lost sessions.

Then use ZEO. And on a development server you can have the sessions in a 
shared ZEO filestorage.

Florent

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