On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Ryan Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > We do something like this. For lisp websites my company makes, we have > a password-protected admin section with some light UI to help us manage > the site (turn logging levels up/down, clear caches, etc), and one of > those tools is a "evaluate this code in the running lisp" textarea, with > a dropdown to select what package it runs in. This is very rarely used > to patch the site in emergency situations or for trivial changes where > we don't want to bring down the site. This has bit us a few times, > where we fixed a small bug directly in the running lisp and then forgot > to publish the new code and had mystery regressions when the lisp > process was restarted.
A really funny cautionary tale about this sort of thing: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Designed-For-Reliability.aspx -- Scott _______________________________________________ pro mailing list [email protected] http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pro
