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

[Chris McDonough]

On Nov 9, 2007, at 7:52 AM, Jim Fulton wrote:

>
> On Nov 8, 2007, at 7:46 PM, Chris McDonough wrote:
>
>>>> 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.
>
> It maters to me.

OK.  I defer here.  But in general, I think what would probably work  
better than a new "z" namespace or any other avoidance of the "zope"  
name is is better dependency specifications, so people would feel  
better about trying to "easy_install" zope.* packages.  Tres suggested  
yesterday that we should write a buildbot-like thing that checked out  
each top-level package in SVN and installed it into a fresh virtualenv  
to see what its dependencies actually are and fix the too-conservative  
dependencies.

I've made a 'zope.transaction' package that I'll rename to  
'transaction': one test still fails in its current state, which I  
should get fixed today:

http://svn.zope.org/zope.transaction/trunk/

WeakSet is in weakset.py.  It also contains TimeStamp, which will get  
moved out of persistent.

The tests work (reqt's are downloaded) if you do "setup.py test -q"

- C