Add-on? (was Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: Rid the term 'product')

Martijn Faassen faassen at infrae.com
Tue Mar 30 04:58:33 EST 2004


Jim Fulton wrote:
> Sorry, I can't resist.
> 
> What about "add-on"?  This seems to be to have the right semantics,
> is a familiar term, and doesn't conflict with "package".   I prefer it
> over "extention", "library", or "application", because it has less meaning
> (is more general) than thise terms.

I think the semantics is still shaky. While I may distribute some XML 
framework as a Zope 3 add-on, I wouldn't really like my Zope 3 
*application* to be described as an add-on. Besides, the word has a dash 
in it and cannot be used as a name in Python. :)

Regards,

Martijn



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