[Koha-devel] Thoughts on reloading Koha plugins

[Arthur]

Hi David,

From what I recall about wordpress, it doesn't use any code-caching
system. (wordpress hosters could use FastCGI though).

It's reloaded at each calls.

Arthur

On 26/05/2021 02:10, dcook at prosentient.com.au wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> It seems to me that installing Koha plugins is easy enough. Each
> Starman process will load the plugin into memory because it hasn’t
> seen it before.
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> However, if you’re updating/upgrading a plugin, each Starman process
> has already loaded it, so it won’t know that it needs to reload it. I
> think most of us work around this at the moment either by restarting
> Plack or just letting the Starman workers die and be replaced by new
> ones that use the updated code. But that doesn’t seem optimal for an
> environment that allows user plugins…
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> That said,
> https://advent.plackperl.org/2009/12/day-4-reloading-applications.html
> <https://advent.plackperl.org/2009/12/day-4-reloading-applications.html>
> and https://metacpan.org/pod/Module::Reload
> <https://metacpan.org/pod/Module::Reload> have a few points on how
> reloading code in a persistent process is a good way to get bugs.
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> I recall Kyle saying Wordpress was his inspiration for the plugins.
> I’m curious how Wordpress handles plugin upgrades.
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