Jim Fulton wrote at 2005-7-14 18:01 -0400: > ... >> There is not much "nastiness" that "Refresh" does: >> >> (Manual) refresh has only a single problem: >> it does not refresh dependent products automatically. > >It also doesn't handle global data properly. > >It tries to do something that Python modules were never >designed to support, which is to load them more than once.
It reloads the modules and Python has a builtin for this ;-) (although "Refresh" does not use the builtin but reloads in a slightly different way). >When it fails, it does so in subtle ways that cause people >to lose lots of time. But, it does not need to fail -- provided that with a product all its dependent products are refreshed as well. At least, I never saw it failing when I had met this condition... And I lost time only when I saw the not very helpful problem messages for the first few times (when I did not met this condition). But otherwise, refresh saved me *lots* of time... -- Dieter _______________________________________________ For more information about ZODB, see the ZODB Wiki: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/ ZODB-Dev mailing list - ZODB-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev
