[Zope3-dev] Voting on Schema design

Shane Hathaway shane@zope.com
Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:33:39 -0400


Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Shane Hathaway wrote:
> [snip theory]
> 
> Yes, I think the theory makes sense, but it still doesn't explain
> why some stuff, like Interfaces, is not prefixed with Zope.. Presumably
> as it should be useful outside of Zope (by, say, Twisted). But then, what
> about ComponentArchitecture and PageTemplates? And there we go into
> the confusion again. :)

My gut feeling is that putting a reusable package outside Zope.* is a 
request for the package to eventually be included in the Python standard 
library.  Interfaces are really a language feature, so in this case it 
makes sense.

R. David Murray wrote:
 > I'd almost rather PythonLabs set up some sort of name registry.

That's an interesting idea.  What does PL think of it?

Shane