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

[Garrett Smith]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Garrett Smith wrote:
>> Could you be more specific? Seriously...if it's a an XML Parser,
>> call it "XML Parser".
> 
> You can use the same rather silly argument for Python as well, but it
> won't fly there either. An XML parser is delivered as a Python module
> or package. Sometimes we call it a library or a framework or
> application; all of those are higher level concepts and are
> distributed as the former. 

The correct analogy to Python would be 'site-packages'.

> I dispute that something like Zope application or Zope library is a
> Zope specific term, just like I don't think Java application or Java
> library are Java specific terms. The point is to use to commonly
> understood names, but that doesn't mean a Zope library is not
> something different than a normal Python library, or a C library or
> whatnot. 

What do you think of simply calling them "Zope 3 Modules" or "Zope 3
Packages", depending on what sort of Python entities they are?

 -- Garrett