[ZODB-Dev] breaking out the transaction module from ZODB
Jim Fulton
jim at zope.com
Fri Nov 9 07:52:30 EST 2007
On Nov 8, 2007, at 7:46 PM, Chris McDonough wrote:
>>> How about "zope.transaction"?
>>
>> Guido recently told me that people in the Python community at
>> large assume that anything in the Zope namespace is assumed to be
>> Zope specific, so I'd rather not put it there.
>
> Does it matter? People who are allergic to the name "zope" can
> probably lose.
It maters to me.
>
>>> There's a good deal of 3rd-party code that does "import
>>> transaction"
>>
>> Good point. I guess we should leave the package where it is.
>> Note that then we have a tricky issue with avoiding having the
>> package installed twice. I guess we should ignore this for now. :/
>
> It'd be no problem to provide the shims.
I don't agree. Shims and similar tricks are evil. Sometimes, it's a
necessary evil, but I don't think the case is strong enough here.
Jim
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