[z3-five] Re: Overlapping Products

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Chris Withers wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Zope 2 has the nice ability to allow you to override Products.
>> For example, I just found a bug in ZCTextIndex which will need fixing, 
>> so between now and 2.7.7, I can just run with a patched ZCTextIndex 
>> product in my instance home without having to worry about whether the 
>> base code is patched or not on a cluster of machines.
>>
>> How will this work in Zope 3, particularly w.r.t. ZODB persistence of 
>> classes which I might want to override in this way?
> 
> 
> First of all, we don't call it "products" anymore, because "products" 
> are those strange things that look like a Python Package, seem to live 
> in a super package (Products) but really don't.
> 
> In Zope 3 we simply talk about Python packages. And that change in 
> terminology reflects also everything about how they are handled: like 
> Python packages. So, the version of a package wins that is first found 
> in your PYTHONPATH. It's that easy.
> 
> Philipp

Sorry, CCed the wrong list.

Philipp