Steve Holden wrote: > Don't I remember reading on the mod_python list that version 3.3 will > abandon auto-reload and require that the Apache server be restarted to > ensure changed modules are reloaded? I don't see that flying too well > with commercial hosting services running many virtuals on a single > Apache instance.
That mod_python 3.3 is abandoning auto-reload is incorrect. In fact the complete opposite is true in that mod_python 3.3 includes a rewritten module importer that actually works properly whereas the current one has lots of problems. In mod_python 3.3 it will be much easier to get away with never having to restart Apache when you change your Python code. But then, this is possibly academic anyway, as packages such as TurboGears and Django are usually written so as to be divorced from the fact that mod_python is used and thus they do not even use the mechanisms which would allow auto-reload of user code to even be done in the first place. Something like Django also uses packages heavily to avoid collision problems with module names (don't know about TurboGears). Although mod_python prior to 3.3 tried to support auto-reload of Python packages, it was broken in many ways and when one looks at it, it is actually pretty well impossible to implement auto-reload of Python packages in a way that would work and not cause application problems. But then Django doesn't even use mod_python to load packages anyway, so auto-reload doesn't get used. As such, it is true that mod_python 3.3 will not support auto-reload of Python packages which may be want you were thinking. It will however still support auto-reload of Python modules and provided that you use the features of mod_python properly in the way they are intended to be used, you can still implement pseudo packages where auto-reload does work. For a complete list of all the problems in the mod_python module importer in versions prior to 3.3, see: http://www.dscpl.com.au/wiki/ModPython/Articles/ModuleImportingIsBroken Graham --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
