[Zope3-dev] Voting on Schema design

[Guido van Rossum]

> > I don't see why that makes it impossible.  It could be incorporated
> > *with* the Zope prefix.
> 
> But then any packages left in the Zope in site-packages would get
> ignored, wouldn't they?

Depends on the mechanics.  E.g. the xml package tries to give
precedence to recent PyXML installations.

> > But rarely does a package get promoted without API changes, so a name
> > change is usually welcome.
> 
> This is an excellent point, and kind of makes the one above
> irrelevant <grin>.

Except that it means that Interface, Persistence etc. are in more
danger of causing a name conflict specifically because they're not in
the Zope package. :-)

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