[Zope3-dev] directory hierarchy proposal

[Jeremy Hylton]

Andrew Kuchling raised the following issue on zodb-dev.  Do we have a
good answer for this issue?

Jeremy

> It may pose a problem for you as the authors, though.  The Distutils
> aren't set up for installing subpackages inside a package, and instead
> always install a new top-level package.  That means that if I install
> zope.zodb, and six months later install zope.tal, the second
> installation will overwrite zope/__init__.py.

> If you do this, you should be careful that zope/__init__.py is just an
> empty placeholder file, containing no actual code, so it doesn't
> matter what version of the file is present.