Re: [Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] Zope and zope

2004-04-18 Thread Michael Bernstein
Jim Fulton wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: The first question is: Is it a problem to have two packages with names differing only in case? +1 -- - Michael R. Bernstein michaelbernstein.com Author of Zope Bible ___ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] Zope and zope

2004-04-14 Thread Jim Fulton
Jim Fulton wrote: Zope 2 has a package named Zope. Zope 3 has a package named zope. Starting with Zope 2.8, parts of Zope 3 will be included in Zope 2. As things stand, this will require having both Zope and zope packages. Python can handle this fine, however, it will require putting the packages

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] Zope and zope

2004-04-14 Thread Kapil Thangavelu
On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 09:00, Jim Fulton wrote: The first question is: Is it a problem to have two packages with names differing only in case? snip Perhaps we can get more input on whether there's a problem. A response with a positive sign (e.g. +1, +0, +2, ...) indicates agreement

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] Zope and zope

2004-04-14 Thread Jim Fulton
Kapil Thangavelu wrote: On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 09:00, Jim Fulton wrote: The first question is: Is it a problem to have two packages with names differing only in case? snip Perhaps we can get more input on whether there's a problem. A response with a positive sign (e.g. +1, +0, +2, ...)

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] Zope and zope

2004-04-14 Thread Fred Drake
On Wednesday 14 April 2004 09:54 am, Kapil Thangavelu wrote: its probably a problem imo for mac users who are on a case insensitive fs. Is this still an issue for Mac OS X, or is your concern for classic Mac OS? I don't know if we support that (simply because I've never heard anyone mention

[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] Zope and zope

2004-04-14 Thread Stephan Richter
-1, it is not really a problem. As Chris pointed out, this will be hard to explain in documentation, but I think it will not be as big of a pain as requiring 3rd parties to change their code (this is for both, Zope 2 and 3). Furthermore, I really dislike the option of renaming zope in Zope 3 to

[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] Zope and zope

2004-04-14 Thread Jim Fulton
Jim Fulton wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: ... I should have been clearer. The first question is: Is it a problem to have two packages with names differing only in case? I haven't gotten as many responses on this as I expected. I'll try to summarize Wrong. People don't find the question useful.

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] Zope and zope

2004-04-14 Thread Andrew Sawyers
Jim Fulton wrote: The first question is: Is it a problem to have two packages with names differing only in case? +1 A response with a positive sign (e.g. +1, +0, +2, ...) indicates agreement that this is a probelm. :) Jim Andrew -- Zope Corporation Software Engineer (540) 361-1700

[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] Zope and zope

2004-04-14 Thread Jim Fulton
Jim Fulton wrote: ... Give the responses. I need to recast my question as a selection among alternatives. But, before I do that, we will need to consider alternatives a bit more. OK, here's another. What about renaming the Zope 3 zope package to z. - It fits with the expansion of Zope: Z

[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] Zope and zope

2004-04-14 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 11:06:37AM -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: What about renaming the Zope 3 zope package to z. Examples (from the buddydemo example): import z.interface from z.app import zapi from z.app.event import publish from z.app.event.objectevent import ObjectModifiedEvent

[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] Zope and zope

2004-04-14 Thread Fred Drake
On Wednesday 14 April 2004 10:52 am, Jim Fulton wrote: packages become very unsttractive. It turns out that pkgutil will be confused by the Zope package on Windows or Mac OS, adding it's directory to the zope package's path. This is a bug in pkgutil that can be fixed, but it is an example

[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] Zope and zope

2004-04-14 Thread Jim Fulton
Marius Gedminas wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 11:06:37AM -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: What about renaming the Zope 3 zope package to z. Examples (from the buddydemo example): import z.interface from z.app import zapi from z.app.event import publish from z.app.event.objectevent import