[ZODB-Dev] breaking out the transaction module from ZODB

[Chris McDonough]

On Nov 8, 2007, at 6:25 PM, Jim Fulton wrote:
>>> Why not subclass TransactionError?
>>
>> It didn't before.  Should it?
>
> Seems logical, but I'm not looking that closely. :)

OK.

>> How about "zope.transaction"?
>
> Guido recently told me that people in the Python community at large  
> assume that anything in the Zope namespace is assumed to be Zope  
> specific, so I'd rather not put it there.

Does it matter?  People who are allergic to the name "zope" can  
probably lose.

>>  There's a good deal of 3rd-party code that does "import transaction"
>
> Good point.  I guess we should leave the package where it is.  Note  
> that then we have a tricky issue with avoiding having the package  
> installed twice.  I guess we should ignore this for now. :/

It'd be no problem to provide the shims.

- C