[Zope3-dev] directory hierarchy proposal

[Jim Fulton]

Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> 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.

Or, that every distribution of zope.__init__ is identical.  I think
that this should be a managable issue.

Jim


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