[Zope-dev] Proposal: Rename zope package

[Michael Bernstein]

Jim Fulton wrote:

> Based on recent discussions, I've created a proposal:
> 
>   http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/RenameTheZopePackage
> 
> to rename the "zope" package to "z". Unless there are strong
> objections, we'll do this after we move the Zope repository head to
> subversion at the end of the month.

 From a consistency in nomenclature POV, I find 'z' jars a bit with 
ZConfig, zdaemon, ZEO, zLog, and ZODB, which one might expect to find 
nested within 'z' (as 'z.Config' for example). This is admittedly only 
an issue for the newest newbies still trying to guess at where stuff is 
located.

However, rather than suggest a wholesale moving and renaming of these 
packages within 'z', I'd like to suggest an alternative short name for 
the 'zope' package, 'OPE', which avoids this issue:

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

Cheers,

-- 
- Michael R. Bernstein