[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] status of Zope versus zope?

[Martijn Faassen]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> Martijn Faassen wrote:

> I chose alternative 4 from:
> 
> http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/RenameTheZopePackage
> 
> As that seemed to be the most popular, although I personnally prefer
> 3.
> 
>> Resolving this peacefully is becoming more urgent for me as I'd
>> like to be able to use Five (Zope 3 on Zope 2) on Windows
>> eventually.
> 
>> Is there some workaround?
> 
> Sure, put "zope" in a different directory.

I don't understand what this means. A different directly on the python path?

>> I'd really hate to have to wait for a mythical
>> Zope 2 release (likely not 2.8) that renamed Zope to something
>> else, for instance.
> 
> I had planned to do this in Zope 2.8, mainly because I wanted to
> include zope.interface in 2.8, mainly to address the difficulty of
> installing the Interface shim.  Your recent work makes the shim
> unnecessary.  I'm really anxious to get 2.8 out, so I'm inclined not
> to include zope.interface in 2.8, and thus not deal with the zope vs
> Zope issue in 2.8.

So what does this mean for Five on Windows?

Regards,

Martijn