[Zope3-dev] Re: Re: Post-Sprint Doc-Team report (fwd)

[Steve Alexander]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> holger krekel wrote:
> 
>>Plus 'zc' arguably breaks the rule of 'no abbreviations' at the
>>very first level.  I don't see the point of saving two characters here.
> 
> 
> There is no such rule; the rule is "Don't shy away from acronyms" (or well
> known abbreviations). That may not be the case here, of course. The
> argument that 'zc' sounds too much like a company name is also valid,
> but not overly worrying to me if we make clear it stands for 'zope community'
> as well.
> 
> The point however is not to save two characters here, but to rename it
> into something else than 'Zope', and to name *App* into Zope. Zope has
> always meant "the application server" to people up till now, and now 
> in Zope 3 we're suddenly naming this 'App' and 'Zope' has the meaning "the
> package that contains packages that can be used outside of Zope (except App)".
> And then we have to explain that "No, Zope is actually not implemented in
> 'zope', it's in "Zope.App".
>  
> That 'except App' is actually suggestive of another refinement. Where now
> we have:
> 
> python
>   Zope 
>      App
>      reusable packages 
> 
> what about:
> 
> python
>   zc (was Zope, minus 'App')
>     reusable packages
>   zope (was App)

...or even

  python
    zope (was Zope, minus 'App')
      reusable packages
    z3 (was App)

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Steve Alexander