[Zope-dev] Re: Proposal: Rename zope package

[Leonardo Rochael Almeida]

+1

I had thought about exactly this idea during the weekend but I thought
the "z" alternative had such traction that it wasn't worth mentioning.
The only difference is that I thought about renaming Zope to ZopeClassic
or ZopeLegacy instead of Zope2 (keeping version numbers out of packages
and all that...)

Cheers,

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 13:08, Jim Fulton wrote:
> [...]
> I've gotten enough negative feedback to "z", that I've added an alternative 4
> to the proposal:
> 
>    4. Rename the Zope package to Zope2 and provide a legacy Zope
>       package
> 
>       - Rename the "Zope" package to "Zope2"
> 
>       - Put the Zope 3 "zope" package into the same location as
>         "Zope2" in a combined installation.
> 
>       - Provide a legacy directory containing a "Zope" package.
>         There will be an option to add this to the Python path. This
>         option will be enabled by default in Zope 2.8 and disabled by
>         default in Zope 2.9.
> 
>         Importing Zope will cause a deprecation warning.
> 
>         The legacy Zope package will have a README.txt file that
>         explains what it is and refers people to the zope and Zope2
>         packages.
> 
> This would mainly impact Zope 2.
> 
> What do people think about alternative 4?
> 
> Jim
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Leonardo Rochael Almeida <leo at hiper.com.br>