Rocky Burt wrote: > On Mon, 2006-01-05 at 19:20 -0700, Rob Miller wrote: > >>On May 1, 2006, at 4:19 PM, Rocky Burt wrote: >> >> >>>On Tue, 2006-02-05 at 01:08 +0200, Hanno Schlichting wrote: >>> >>>>To summarize some of the discussion we had on IRC just now, here >>>>is our >>>>current idea, for all those people not spending their life in online >>>>channels ;) >>>> >>>>As an example we used the structure for the contextualhelp product, >>>>which was developed at the sprint: >>>> >>>>This should go into the "http://svn.plone.org/svn/plone/"; repository >>>>under the name "plone.contextualhelp": >>>> >>>>http://svn.plone.org/svn/plone/plone.contextualhelp/trunk >>>>http://svn.plone.org/svn/plone/plone.contextualhelp/trunk/src >>>>http://svn.plone.org/svn/plone/plone.contextualhelp/trunk/src/plone >>>>http://svn.plone.org/svn/plone/plone.contextualhelp/trunk/src/ >>>>plone/contextualhelp >>>> >>>>http://svn.plone.org/svn/plone/plone.contextualhelp/branches >>>>http://svn.plone.org/svn/plone/plone.contextualhelp/tags >>>> >>>>The trunk folder itself should contain release scripts, like setup.py >>>>and the real source should be in a /src subfolder. It has a plone >>>>subfolder, so it is obvious that to import anything from this package >>>>you have to use "from plone.contextualhelp import *". >>>> >>>>If we can agree on this, we should probably post this to the devel >>>>list >>>>with some more explanation (which can grow into a chapter in the dev >>>>manual ;) >>> >>>+1 to all of this. Except of course for the line "from >>>plone.contextualhelp import *". If I see code importing * I will >>>promptly scream :) >> >>i'm okay with most of this, except for the extra 'plone' level in the >>src tree. it's implied in the plone.contextualhelp directory name, >>IMO, no need for an empty, duplicate folder level. > > > I'm not sure of all the practical reasoning for requiring the 'plone' > level in the src tree but all the regular python packaging I've seen > that uses a toplevel package does provide that dir in their src > directory so part of this would merely be for consistency's sake. > > Look at more of the zope.* whatever pkgs in svn.zope.org and see for > yourself.
Right, `plone` would be our namespace[1] package. This makes very much sense in the context of setuptools/distutils. (It's nice to know *why* zope3 people do the things they do ;) However, having src/ is really a matter of taste. [1] http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#namespace-packages _______________________________________________ Framework-Team mailing list Framework-Team@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/framework-team
