[Zope3-dev] directory hierarchy proposal

[Guido van Rossum]

> Andrew Kuchling raised the following issue on zodb-dev.  Do we have a
> good answer for this issue?
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> > It may pose a problem for you as the authors, though.  The Distutils
> > aren't set up for installing subpackages inside a package, and instead
> > always install a new top-level package.  That means that if I install
> > zope.zodb, and six months later install zope.tal, the second
> > installation will overwrite zope/__init__.py.
> 
> > If you do this, you should be careful that zope/__init__.py is just an
> > empty placeholder file, containing no actual code, so it doesn't
> > matter what version of the file is present.

Keeping __init__.py devoid of content sounds like a good plan anyway,
so I'm not sure this is a real problem.

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