[Zope-dev] Proposal: Rename zope package
Fred Drake
fred at zope.com
Fri Apr 16 14:09:00 EDT 2004
On Friday 16 April 2004 01:31 pm, Michael Bernstein wrote:
> 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.
I don't know what zLog is; presumably you mean zLOG?
zLOG is dead in Zope 2.8, and will remain only for API compatibility.
I don't think there's any real consistency now for what's in the Zope 2 head,
so I don't think that's a big deal.
> 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
Hehe. ;-)
(I do hope you're joking!)
-Fred
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Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fred at zope.com>
PythonLabs at Zope Corporation
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