[Zope-dev] z3c.form 2.0 release

[Roger Ineichen]

Hi Brian

> Betreff: Re: [Zope-dev] z3c.form 2.0 release
> 
> On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 11:27:01PM -0800, Stephan Richter wrote:
> > On Friday 05 December 2008, Martin Aspeli wrote:
> > > Is there any indication on when we'll see a 2.0 release 
> of z3c.form?
> > >
> > > We need a widget that's not in the 1.9 release, but is on 
> trunk (for 
> > > a list with textline value type), and are wondering 
> whether to roll 
> > > our own or wait for a new z3c.form release.
> > 
> > I am considering the code feature complete. I would like to get 
> > confirmation from people that (a) the z3c.pt integration works well
> 
> I have an issue with this. z3c.pt.compat creates a nasty 
> issue when trying to package it as a Debian package.
> 
> The root cause seems to be that z3c.pt.compat declares z3c.pt 
> as a namespace package. These are defined in the setuptools 
> documentation to be "merely a container for modules and 
> subpackages." [1]. z3c.pt doesn't conform to that as it 
> contains files. This doesn't matter till you try to install 
> it using the --single-version-externally-managed option, at 
> which point you get file conflicts.
> 
> I've been thinking about it a while, and I think the only 
> solution is to rename z3c.pt.compat to z3c.ptcompat, make a 
> new release of that and migrate z3c.form. I'm willing to 
> implement that if there's enough support.
> 
> [1] 
> http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#namespace-packages

I agree
A package should never use another package as it's namespace.
Which means a package can not be both a package and namespace for 
other packages.
Some distribution concept can work with this but others don't.

Malthe are you aware of this? Can you change it?

Regards
Roger Ineichen