[Zope-Coders] Re: revising layout of ZODB3 checkout

[Tres Seaver]

Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> It seems like there is consensus that a reorganization is a good thing. 
> I realized that there's one more wrinkle.  
> 
> If I change the layout of the ZODB3 repolinks now, I'll affect all the
> maintenance branches.  So we'd need to modify setup.py, MANIFEST, and
> probably a few other things for each of the maintenance branches.  The
> resulting distributions would look different, too.
> 
> Another option is to create a new top-level module, maybe call it ZODB,
> and use it for ZODB 3.3 and up.  ZODB3 would linger just to support
> maintenance releases.  Since there's no active work on ZODB4 planned, it
> doesn't seem like there's much harm in dropping the version number from
> the module name.
> 
> Anyone have a preference?

I like the second, myself;  the only real drag is how we arrange to 
share the ,v files with Zope 2.8+, given that its directory structure is 
tied to the old version.

Tres.
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