[Zope3-Users] Re: Using dotted package names

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Fabio Rizzo Matos wrote:
> Olha pq não estava rolando os nossos pontos!
> 
> /me precisamos corrigir o agx para gerar os nomes de pacotes com
> pontos. Hoje ele está substituindo para ponto.

English, please.

> abraços
> 
> On 9/23/06, Philipp von Weitershausen <philipp at weitershausen.de> wrote:
>> George Lee wrote:
>> > I am trying to be a good programmer and create pure Zope packages 
>> instead of
>> > Plone products when possible.
>>
>> That's great! Note that you will either need Zope 2.10 or Zope 2.9 +
>> Five 1.4 for this.
>>
>> > How do dotted package names (like plone.portlets or dotted.name) 
>> work? In
>> > \zopeinstance\lib\python, is the package actually in
>> > \zopeinstance\lib\python\dotted.name, or is it in
>> > \zopeinstance\lib\python\dotted\name?
>>
>> The latter.
>>
>> > What is the purpose of using the dotted name?
>>
>> Short answer: package namespaces.
>>
>> Long answer: Say you're creating a widget library. You could call your
>> package simply "widget". But then if I create a widget library and
>> called it "widget", too, we'd have a conflict and couldn't use them at
>> the same time. That's why you call your package "george.widget" and I'll
>> call my package "philikon.widget". Makes sense?
>>
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