[ZODB-Dev] breaking out the transaction module from ZODB

[Jim Fulton]

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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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation