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] h

[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 ObjectMo

[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 examp

[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 ObjectModifi

[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

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: 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. G

[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 t

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 mentio

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? Perhaps we can get more input on whether there's a problem. A response with a positive sign (e.g. +1, +0, +2, ...) indicates a

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? > > > 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

[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 pa