+1 from me ! I'm always in favor of less typing :P Besides, you make good points :) J.F. -----Original Message----- From: zope-dev-bounces@zope.org [mailto:zope-dev-bounces@zope.org]On Behalf Of Jim Fulton Sent: April 14, 2004 3:54 PM To: jim@zope.com Cc: zope3-dev@zope.org; zope-dev@zope.org Subject: [Zope-dev] More arguments for "z" (was Re: [Zope3-dev] Zope and zope) Jim Fulton wrote:

Jim Fulton wrote:

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Give the responses. I need to recast my question as a selection among alternatives. But, before I do that, we will need to consider alternatives a bit more.

OK, here's another.

What about renaming the Zope 3 zope package to "z".

- It fits with the expansion of "Zope": "Z Object Publishing Environment".

- It's short :)

- *At this time* (but after the move to svn), it's not too hard to make a change like this for Zope 3. Backward compatibility is not a big issue. This will change when X3.0 is released, which is why I'm bothering to deal with this now.

- This was suggested a couple of years ago when coming up with the Zope 3 package layout.

Examples (from the buddydemo example):

import z.interface from z.app import zapi from z.app.event import publish from z.app.event.objectevent import ObjectModifiedEvent

Other reasons I like "z": - Less noise in imports - Echos the "circle z" - The packages in "z" can be used for more than just Zope - Emphasizes the more "minimalist" nature of Zope 3 relative to Zope 2 - "z" is a component of "zope" OK, I'm getting carried away. Sorry ;) Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@zope.com Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )