[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: Zope and zope

[Jim Fulton]

Stephan Richter wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 April 2004 22:17, Tres Seaver wrote:
> 
>><snip>
>>
>>>>Of course, having two packages with names differing only in case is a
>>>>bit ugly.
>>>>
>>>>Do we want to consider renaming one or both of these packages
>>>>to avoid the conflict?
>>
>>-1 to renaming 'Zope';  the amount of third-party code which we would
>>break is incalculable.  -0 to renaming 'zope' to 'z3', or something;  at
>>least third party code for Zope3 was built in the test-driven culture,
>>and has at least some chance of migrating cleanly with confidence.
> 
> 
> You wanna rename 'zope' to 'z3'

Tres doesn't.

I want to solve the problem of having both "zope" and "Zope".

 > for the purpose of merging the two?

Yes

 > I really
> hope that will not be the case.

Why?

 > Or is this for Zope 2 only?

No, it would have to apply to both. Packages that would otherwise work
with Zope 3 in Zope 2 should not have to be changed to be used with Zope 3.

> I would hate to have imports like "z3.app.foo" or even "z3.i18n".

Why?

What about "z.app.foo" or "z.i18n"?

Jim

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