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

Tres Seaver tseaver at zope.com
Tue Apr 13 23:08:40 EDT 2004


Stephan Richter wrote:
> 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?

Note that I am -0 to the idea.

> 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.

I am just arguing that it would be saner to rename 'zope' to 'z3' (or 
'zope3', or whatever) than to rename 'Zope' to 'zope2' (or whatever).

Tres.
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