Hello all, I realize my opinion may not matter very much, but as one who uses many of the repoze packages often, I often wondered why the repoze namespace was used for many of the packages.
I am of the opinion that it hurts the potential adoption of some of the great packages and is a little misleading in some cases. So I am in agreement with Malthe on this. I have thought the very same thing he is talking about here often. -Nathan Van Gheem On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Malthe Borch <mbo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/11/2 Martin Aspeli <optilude+li...@gmail.com<optilude%2bli...@gmail.com> > >: > > I think it's better to use top-level namespaces to indicate ownership, > > if nothing else to avoid the chance of things clashing. For the repoze > > project to "claim" the wsgi.* namespace seems both a bit presumteuous > > and clash-prone. > > It does not a claiming of a namespace, it's a usage. Obviously other > parties are free to use it too. > > > You think so? First of all, repoze != zope, and secondly, I'd rather > > hope people had grown out of discarding code based on a name or a > > namespace. With all the reach-out work Chris and others have done, I'd > > be surprised if the repoze.* name was turning people off. > > I think my worry with repoze.* is that it claims to want to be > "plumbing Zope into the WSGI Pipeline"; that might be deprecated, but > as it is, repoze as a project has some sort of direction, it's not > just a group of contributors. Some of the software I've contributed > under the repoze name is not very much related to this direction (e.g. > repoze.formapi). > > > Plone people (and me personally) prefer to "own" a namespace. What if > > someone else had the idea to call something Chameleon, which is not > > entirely unlikely? What about a more generic name? Must we always come > > up with a suitably quirky name when a more functional one would do? > > I agree to some extent; but certain pieces of software benefit from > having a real name. > > > Incidentally, I bloggedt about this stuff in the context of Plone > > yesterday: > > > http://martinaspeli.net/articles/the-naming-of-things-package-names-and-namespaces/ > > Yes, I saw it; I'm not sure we're in alignment although I'm not sure > we're not :) > > \malthe > _______________________________________________ > Repoze-dev mailing list > Repoze-dev@lists.repoze.org > http://lists.repoze.org/listinfo/repoze-dev >
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