[Zope3-dev] Voting on Schema design

[Guido van Rossum]

> Although, to answer Martijn's question as to what goes in lib/python
> as opposed to lib/python/Zope, I have an "easy" answser to that
> one.  IMO, the stuff that goes in lib/python is the stuff that
> someday wants to be part of the Python batteries-included library.
> I'd like Schema to be in that category <grin>.

But a generic name like Schema is less likely to be elected.

> Which brings up one of the big disadvantages of the 'Zope'
> namespace scheme.  It makes it impossible to promote a package
> into the batteries-included library.  And that would be a shame.

I don't see why that makes it impossible.  It could be incorporated
*with* the Zope prefix.

But rarely does a package get promoted without API changes, so a name
change is usually welcome.

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