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

[Tres Seaver]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> Tres Seaver wrote:
> 
>> Jim Fulton wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> -1, for reasons I've stated before. 
> 
> 
> 
> Before you said:
>  > the amount of third-party code which we would break is incalculable.
> 
> 
>>  we *can't* inflict the pain on the large set of installed production 
>> servers to favor "cleanliness" for the one only installed by 
>> arrow-backed pioneers.  We would be *much* better off with the status 
>> quo ante than with such a "solution".
> 
> 
> I tried to address your concerns.  The proposal should *not* inflict
> pain on installed production servers.  Is your complaint that:
> 
> - There will be deprecation warnings or that
> 
> - We would not enable this by default in 2.9,

Sorry for the misunderstanding, which was mine:  given the current 
deprecation scheme, I am only -0 on the notion.

Tres.
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