[Zope3-dev] Re: Rid the term 'product'

[Martijn Faassen]

Garrett Smith wrote:
> I think Shane has it right here. I don't think we're talking about:
> 
>  - products
>  - bundles
>  - packages
>  - extensions
>  - plugins
> 
> We're talking about parsing some ZCML so that extra stuff gets 
> registered with Zope.
> 
> My suggestions is to abandon any talk of what this 'thing' is. Instead, 
> rename the file:
> 
>   products.zcml -> external.zcml
> 
> and document is as being:
> 
>   Configuration for external applications.

You can't abandon any talk of what this 'thing' is. What are you going to 
call a list of such things? What if you want to tell someone to install 
something? What if I need to install the XML thingy? A rather 
unrealistic proposition in my mind..

Are people going to call them 'externals'?  'extra stuff'? Oh, I'm 
running Zope but in order to do anything with it I need to install 
something external.

Let's use a word that has an actual meaning to people. 'Extension' and 
'Application' do actually mean something to many people. 'External' is 
just going to give us a new word for 'product' if we're not careful. 
We can't go and propose a kind of newspeak and ignore the word just because
we can't agree on a good name for it.

Anyway, I personally think there's nothing wrong with the words 
'Zope Extension' and 'Zope Application', where the latter is usually
composed of (or at least uses) some of the former.

Regards,

Martijn