PatchKit allows the replacement of entire methods, with the ability to backup the original when the first replacement is done - This means that the patches are (Or at least can be) refreshable.
PatchKit does not allow for small changes to be made within a method (Such as a DTML/HTML object) but there is a patch that puts the ZMI in the ZODB. Adrian... -- Adrian Hungate EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.haqa.co.uk Computers are like air conditioners -- they stop working properly if you open WINDOWS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Penny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Adrian Hungate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 11:37 PM Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] multiple monkeypatches > On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:51:45PM +0100, Adrian Hungate wrote: > > PatchKit handles this for you (If you ask it to). > > > > :) > > > > Adrian... > > I am not sure that I understand. I need to be able to do a > "cumulative monkey patch". Suppose that there were two independent > products which both modified manage_main (without loss of generality, > say ExternalEditor and ZShell). Most people use neither, some people > use one, some use the other, and some use both. > > It is the case of people using both that I am interested in. To do > this appears to me to require that I have access to the DTML form of > any previous monkey patches to manage_main so that I can decide > if I can safely patch the running version to meet the needs of both > products. > > Is this possible? > > If both products were using PatchKit would it be possible? How about > if only one used PatchKit? > > Thanks > > Jim > > > > -- > _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
