[Zope3-dev] Re: Proposal: Rename zope package

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Troy Farrell wrote:
> Tres Seaver wrote:
> |
> |> Jim Fulton wrote:
> |> ...
> |> I've gotten enough negative feedback to "z", that I've added an
> |> alternative 4
> |> to the proposal:
> |>
> |>   4. Rename the Zope package to Zope2 and provide a legacy Zope
> |>      package
> |
> | -1, for reasons I've stated before.  This is Zope 3's problem;  we
> | *can't* inflict the pain on the large set of installed production
> | servers to favor "cleanliness" for the one only installed by
> | arrow-backed pioneers.  We would be *much* better off with the status
> | quo ante than with such a "solution".
> |
> | Tres.
> 
> -1 on alternative 4.  This lurker is with Tres.  This is a Z3 
> challenge.  I wonder how many part-time Zope 2 admins will be happy
> about making this change and having to retest code they've inherited
> from some contract developer.

Why would they switch to Zope 2.8 if not for the component architecture? 
So, if you just "inherited" some code for maintainance, this will 
unlikely break your program. In fact, it won't even break your program 
when the rename is effective, since we'll keep a facade Zope package around.

Philipp