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

[Paul Everitt]

On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 12:37:46 -0500, Brian Lloyd <brian at zope.com> wrote:

>> Martijn Faassen wrote:
>> > 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..
>
> FWIW - for a long time I've wished that we could just stop
> expending energy on this and just call them packages as a
> general term. Yes, package is a term that has a specific
> meaning in Python - the same is true in Java, yet somehow
> people manage to grok the distinction between 'package' used
> as a general term and the concrete concept of a Java package.

+1

> As for products.zcml -- why not just call it register.zcml? That's
> what you're doing, no matter what you call the things you are
> registering.

+1

--Paul