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Re: Reload not quite good enaugh

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Thu Oct 29 18:04:37 2009

Resent-From: nelhage@mit.edu
Resent-To: barnowl-dev-mtg@charon.mit.edu
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
To: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@mit.edu>
Cc: dirty-owl-hackers@mit.edu
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 18:05:35 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20061105225612.GB1956@mit.edu> (Nelson Elhage's message of "Sun,
	5 Nov 2006 17:56:13 -0500")

>>>>> "Nelson" == Nelson Elhage <nelhage@MIT.EDU> writes:

    Nelson> If we make things into real perl modules, we can use
    Nelson> Module::Refresh from CPAN to reload them, as well. I don't
    Nelson> recommend this strategy for general use, but it might be
    Nelson> useful during development at least.

I'd like to not go too wild with our CPAN dependencies.


One thing to consider is whether we could throw away and recreate the
perl interpreter.
That would mean throwing away all owl-level callbacks.

Another approach might be to 
%INC = ();
in the reload sub


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