[ZODB-Dev] Fwd: [Zope3-dev] directory hierarchy proposal (Martijn Faassen)

[Guido van Rossum]

> Ugh.  At least, I don't care for the idea of moving Persistence away
> from its present location as a root package; I'd like the Persistent
> base class to stay "neutral", especially if it may later become the
> basis for a Python persistence standard.

Jim had this dream too, once.  I think it's unlikely that this will
happen without any changes to the API though.  It's better to be clear
that you're using the Zope persistence package now; then when a Python
persistence package lands, eventually, it'll be clear whether a
particular piece of code uses the old or the new version of the API.
If they were both called "Persistence" there would be plenty of
confusion.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)