[Zope3-Users] Re: Refreshing possible yet?

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

To answer the question right away: No.

Peter Bengtsson wrote:
> Since I'm still an eager zope3 newbie the misstakes I make are the kind 
> of misstakes that you can't really write unittests for, like missing 
> directives in the configure.zcml or incorretly use of browser views.
> This is to an expert simple deployment but since I have to look up 
> everything I do by example or by Phillipps book I tend to make a lot of 
> simple little misstakes. Having to restart every time is quite annoying 
> now. Is there a "module refreshing" tool available yet?

Gintautas Miliauskas once wrote a simple view refreshing tool. It's a 
hack, I don't know if it works reliably. And it's limited to views. See 
http://codespeak.net/svn/z3/z3reload/trunk/.

> I'll give in and rely on unittests instead of trial-and-error once I've 
> got the site up and running but for the moment it feels it's a bore to 
> have to wait for the restart 3-6 seconds for every little change.

I agree. Reloading modules in Python, especially when you store 
references to global objects like component registries do, is highly 
non-trivial, though... There are some ideas floating around, but it'll 
take a bit for us to synthesize them into something that may or may not 
work... Sorry.

Philipp