[Zope3-dev] Re: z3 i18n MessageId class backport to 2.7

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Godefroid Chapelle wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> What we came to on IRC would be to add an src directory at the same 
> level as lib and to add this src directory to PYTHONPATH besides 
> lib/python from now on. This would allow to have a natural place for new 
> (to 2.x) packages coming from zope3 and being able to import names 
> equally under 2.x and 3.

+1

This could indeed allow us to backport much stuff from Zope3 right into 
Zope2. The benefit is that files can go almost unchanged which makes 
diffing a lot easier. Actually, I dare to ask whether we would have to 
maintain two copies of the same files at all, or not simply do one of 
those famous repository symlinks, for example from Zope/src/zope/i18n to 
Zope3/src/zope/i18n. The zope.interface package comes into mind as well.

Philipp