[Zope3-dev] Voting on Schema design

[Guido van Rossum]

> 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.

Yeah, but it actually gets in the way, because what eventually gets
adopted by the Python core is probably not exactly the same as what
Zope uses, and then there's a naming conflict.

> 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?

There was a naming registry aeons ago at NIST, but nobody used it
much.  So I'm skeptical that this will work.

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