[Zope3-dev] Re: Two visions

[Martijn Faassen]

Terry Hancock wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:41:08 +0100
> Martijn Faassen <faassen at infrae.com> wrote:
> 
>>Could you please stop using a new name for Zope 3 or the
>>zope package?  You can explain this perfectly well using
>>the existing, well established  names.
> 
> 
> I strongly disagree with this sentiment.  To me the name
> change for Zope 3 seems essential.  I'm not strongly
> inclined as to whether "Z" or "Zed" or ? is a good
> choice for the name, but I think the google search argument
> suggests it should be spelled out rather than an initial.
> Also, if you want it pronounced "zed", you'd better spell it
> out for us Americans who will otherwise call it
> "zee".

I agree that it'd have been better for us, in retrospect, if Zope 3 were 
not called "Zope" at all, but something else.

I also agree that if we change any name, changing the name of Zope 3 to 
something else is probably the least damaging and has potential gains, 
such as dropping the commitment that Zope 3 will do what Zope 2 can, and 
so on. It also has the potential gain that non-Zope people will be more 
likely to adopt the use of Zope 3 code. Whether the gain outweighs the 
damage done I'm not so sure of.

I recommend any message change that requires requires significant future 
development activity to make true.

So, a proposal that says we need have a version of Zope that can run 
both Zope 2 and Zope 3 is fine, but I don't want to change the name of 
Zope 2 now based on the assumption that this will happen 2 years from 
now. It won't happen soon and, though I don't assume and hope this, it 
might never happen.

Regards,

Martijn