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

[Jim Fulton]

Tres Seaver wrote:
> Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
>> Jim Fulton wrote:
>>
>>> Based on recent discussions, I've created a proposal:
>>>
>>>   http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/RenameTheZopePackage
>>>
>>> to rename the "zope" package to "z". Unless there are strong
>>> objections, we'll do this after we move the Zope repository head to
>>> subversion at the end of the month.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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. 


Before you said:
 > the amount of third-party code which we would break is incalculable.


>  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".

I tried to address your concerns.  The proposal should *not* inflict
pain on installed production servers.  Is your complaint that:

- There will be deprecation warnings or that

- We would not enable this by default in 2.9,

or both?

Jim

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