[Zope-dev] Policy question: correct location to put member contributed libraries

[Andrew Wilcox]

At 10:42 AM 3/27/00 -0500, Brian Lloyd wrote:
>Probably the best place is a package in the 
> lib/python/Shared/
>directory of the Zope installation. This is the 
>place for packages that are not product-specific. 
>For example, lib/python/Shared/DC contains packages 
>from Digital Creations - you might want to put your 
>stuff in lib/python/Shared/Foo/PersistentListDict 
>(where "Foo" is your organization or some other 
>contextual name to distinguish your packages).
>
>Hope this helps!

Hmm... To store packages by the name of my organization would imply a
degree of ownership that I'm not sure I want for an open source library.
Wherever they go, they had better well darn *stay* there, or existing
objects of the class in the ZODB won't be able to be unpickled.  (Do I have
this right?)  I may want to turn active maintenance of the library over to
some other volunteer someday...  Does simply
lib/Python/Shared/PersistentListDict/(*.py) risk namespace clashes too much?

Thanks!

Andrew