Hanno Schlichting wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Martijn Faassen <faas...@startifact.com> > wrote: >> Leonardo Rochael Almeida wrote: >>> * Use a different package name! >> We don't have that option, as we're talking about changing the behavior >> of calling IFoo. > > It's very well possible. You create a new distribution called for > example "Interface". Now you can write: > > import interface > import zope.interface > > class IFoo(interface.Interface): pass > > class IBar(zope.interface.Interface): pass > > Depending on what "kind" of interface you have the semantics of > calling these are different. Not that I'm proposing to do this, as it > leads to a pretty horrible mess, but it's possible.
True. But nitpicking, as all along we're talking about an upgrade to zope.component to allow new semantics. > We are just now getting rid of the old Zope2 Interface package and its > usage in Plone land, which has the same kind of incompatibility > problem. I expect that old version of interfaces is still going to be > with us for a number of years. So experience shows that something so > central, even if not used for many important things, has a much much > longer lifetime than you'd expect. Agreed. By taking everything along at the same time in this case I think we avoid this issue somewhat, though. Regards, Martijn _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
