[Zope-dev] Proposal: Rename zope package

[Fred Drake]

On Friday 16 April 2004 01:31 pm, Michael Bernstein wrote:
 >  From a consistency in nomenclature POV, I find 'z' jars a bit with
 > ZConfig, zdaemon, ZEO, zLog, and ZODB, which one might expect to find
 > nested within 'z' (as 'z.Config' for example). This is admittedly only
 > an issue for the newest newbies still trying to guess at where stuff is
 > located.

I don't know what zLog is; presumably you mean zLOG?

zLOG is dead in Zope 2.8, and will remain only for API compatibility.

I don't think there's any real consistency now for what's in the Zope 2 head, 
so I don't think that's a big deal.

 > However, rather than suggest a wholesale moving and renaming of these
 > packages within 'z', I'd like to suggest an alternative short name for
 > the 'zope' package, 'OPE', which avoids this issue:
 >
 >   import OPE.interface
 >   from OPE.app import zapi
 >   from OPE.app.event import publish
 >   from OPE.app.event.objectevent import ObjectModifiedEvent

Hehe.  ;-)

(I do hope you're joking!)


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fred at zope.com>
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