[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: Zope and zope

Stephan Richter stephan.richter at tufts.edu
Tue Apr 13 22:44:21 EDT 2004


On Tuesday 13 April 2004 22:17, Tres Seaver wrote:
> <snip>
>
> >>Of course, having two packages with names differing only in case is a
> >>bit ugly.
> >>
> >>Do we want to consider renaming one or both of these packages
> >>to avoid the conflict?
>
> -1 to renaming 'Zope';  the amount of third-party code which we would
> break is incalculable.  -0 to renaming 'zope' to 'z3', or something;  at
> least third party code for Zope3 was built in the test-driven culture,
> and has at least some chance of migrating cleanly with confidence.

You wanna rename 'zope' to 'z3' for the purpose of merging the two? I really 
hope that will not be the case. Or is this for Zope 2 only?

I would hate to have imports like "z3.app.foo" or even "z3.i18n". I am 
definitely -1 on this option, if it also applies to standalone Zope 3.

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
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