July 1999 - Zope-Announce

DA Status
by Christopher Petrilli 28 Jul '99

28 Jul '99

Gang, I've started to put up a list of status for all the DA's on the web site: http://www.zope.org/Download/DAStatus Please look over this and let me know if you have anything to change. I will be adding information about contributed DAs as it is collected/contributed. One thing I would like to make clear about all DC-supported DAs... they will all be at least Level 2 by the official release of Zope 2.0. In addition, if you wish to beat a DA into L2 immediately, all you need to do is: * Mix in the Shared.DC.ZRDB.THUNK.THUNKED_TM instead of normal one * Call self._register before you do a query * And implement self._begin, self._finish, self._abort This gets you L2 + integration with transaction support. This list will expand and grow over the next couple of days. Chris

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Training material online
by Christopher Petrilli 28 Jul '99

28 Jul '99

Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, and a kick in the kiester, the training materials that we've run a few times have been HTMLified and put up on the Digicool site. You can find them here: http://www.digicool.com/Solutions/Training/Material/ Good luck, and please direct feedback to myself rather than the list. Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli Python Powered Digital Creations, Inc. | petrilli(a)digicool.com http://www.digicool.com

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FYI: Zope Weekly News
by Amos Latteier 28 Jul '99

28 Jul '99

Hello, The big news this week was the release of Zope 2.0 beta one. Zope 2 final is getting closer and closer. Beta one increases stability over the alpha releases and also adds a few missing pieces like the ability to tie permissions to factories. Also you can now export Zope objects to XML. Speaking of XML, as of beta one all basic Zope objects support a subset of the DOM Element interface, and the unsupported XML Document product is out and in CVS. * Zope 2.0 beta one was released this week. Now you can download a binary release of Zope 2. http://www.zope.org/Download/Releases/Zope-2.0.0b1 * The Zope site received a look and feel makeover. Most people seem to like the new design. A couple people posted describing the strange feeling of having the entire site change while browsing it. Zope sessions are cool! http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/007368.html * Amos Latteier announced the availability of XML Document 1.0a1 a Zope product for using XML. A couple days later, XML Document made it into public CVS. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/007126.html http://www.zope.org/Download/XMLDocument http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-July/000990.html * Anthony Pfrunder announced a new version of his Zope for windows distribution. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/007189.html * Michel Pelletier announced Zippy Tag which allows you to insert random Zippy the Pinhead quotes in your Zope documents. Yes! http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/007190.html http://www.zope.org/Download/Contrib/Zippy.tgz * Paul Everitt discusses how you can now export Zope objects to XML. Basically the XML format describes Python pickles. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/007200.html * Michel Pelletier posted an extremely simple summary of how to hook a form to a database. This is a good read for those new to Zope. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/007336.html * Andreas Kostyrka posted a patch to allow Zope to server multiple sites from one process. Very interesting, multiple sites from one object database! http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-July/000931.html http://www.mtg.co.at/projects/subhosting/ * Eric Kidd posted a Zope/XML-RPC todo list. Follow up posts confirmed that a number of the items have already been done. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-July/000972.html * Brian Lloyd posted an insightful message describing the 'Owner' role and how to use proxy roles to allow limited access to restricted functions. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-July/000987.html * Chris Petrilli mentioned that Gadfly is finally being updated to the latest version. Alright! http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-July/001002.html See you next week, same time, same channel. -Amos -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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ANN: The Zippy Tag
by Michel Pelletier 24 Jul '99

24 Jul '99

Greetin's Zope is, as we all know, a very powerful application development and content management tool. Whenever we come upon problems that need to be solved in the real world, Zope is always the perfect piece of software that solves all problems, very well. This is how we designed it, through real world use. Zope solves it's problems though the use of superior technology. With ground breaking concepts like acquisition, pure web object orientation, a simple management interface, and secure and flexible security, Zope can take on any other 'web portal tool kit' commercial or otherwise. Up to this day however, Zope lacked one feature that would complete it's total Zope Zen. The ability to insert random 'Zippy the Pinhead' quotes into your Content. This dire need has been fulfilled, introducing the Zippy DTML tag: http://www.zope.org/Download/Contrib/Zippy.tgz This Product contains the MIT Zippy the Pinhead database, and distributed with GNU Emacs, and a simple 12 line Python class (not including comments). This is probably the simplest example of a DTML tag to date. To use the Zippy tag, simple untar and ungzip the Zippy.tgz file in your main Zope directory, restart Zope, and an variation on the following complex Zippy tag syntax:  For a more cheerfull, and possibly more productive development experience, place this DTML in your standard_html_error file and smile with each traceback. -Michel

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ANNOUNCE: Zope 2.0.0 beta 1
by Jim Fulton 23 Jul '99

23 Jul '99

Zope 2.0 beta 1 is now available at: http://www.zope.org/Download/Releases/Zope-2.0.0b1 This release includes a source release and binary releases for Windows, Linux, and Solaris. See the change information at the URL above to find ot about what's changed. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@digicool.com Python Powered! Technical Director (888) 344-4332 http://www.python.org Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com http://www.zope.org Under US Code Title 47, Sec.227(b)(1)(C), Sec.227(a)(2)(B) This email address may not be added to any commercial mail list with out my permission. Violation of my privacy with advertising or SPAM will result in a suit for a MINIMUM of $500 damages/incident, $1500 for repeats.

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ANNOUNCE: XMLDocument 1.0a1
by Amos Latteier 22 Jul '99

22 Jul '99

I am pleased to announce the first alpha release of XML Document. XML Document allows you to use xml objects in the Zope environment. You can create xml documents in Zope and leverage Zope to format, query, and manipulate xml. http://www.zope.org/Download/XMLDocument This release requires Zope 2.0x and the pyexpat parser which will be distributed with Zope come Zope 2.0b1. Until the Zope beta release you can get pyexpat from the Python xml-sig's xml package. http://www.python.org/sigs/xml-sig I'd love feedback on the functionality and design of this product. I think that it has a lot of potential. Also I encourage contributions on this project since I do not have a lot of time to spend on it myself. Happy xml hacking! -Amos P.S. Install it like a normal Zope product, i.e. ungzip and untar in inside your Zope directory. If you are using the xml-sig pyexpat, Zope will expect to find it in xml.parsers.pyexpat. -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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CVS checkin notifications reinstated
by Ken Manheimer 22 Jul '99

22 Jul '99

[Since the zope-announce list is new and has relatively few subscribers, i'm cc'ing the zope-dev list as well - we won't continue to do this for long. I'm not sure chris was clear about this - if you're subscribing to zope-dev (and/or zope) you probably want to subscribe to zope-announce as well: http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce . Ken.] We've reinstated updates to the public CVS repository (before the Zope2 release - looks like that may be a day or two) - *with an important change*: Ongoing development is being applied to a new directory, Zope2. The old Zope module, on which the prior public checkouts were based, will *not* be revised, so: - If you want to get the new version you'll have to do a new checkout of the Zope2 module. This actually simplifies a bunch of things from our internal perspective, and a few things from the external perspective, and has the benefit of providing a checkpoint of the last Zope1 release. But it is a change, and we want to be sure that you track it. Questions? Comments? Lemme know. Ken Manheimer klm(a)digicool.com

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FYI: Zope Weekly News
by Amos Latteier 22 Jul '99

22 Jul '99

Zope 2.0 beta one should be out *very* soon. This week saw a lot of screw tightening in preparation for the beta release. The public CVS archive is temporarily frozen due to some re-organization but will open up again when the beta release comes out. Most of the traffic on the Zope lists was devoted to Zope community members helping each other solve their various real world problems. One of the most notable discussions this week started with a comparison between Zope and other web development platforms with respect to xml facilities. Folks at DC weighed in with their 2 cents on the subject which includes the imminent release of a Zope product which will allow access to xml objects in Zopish ways. Interestingly many community members have similar ideas of what Zope needs in terms of xml support. It will be exciting to see how Digital Creations and community members collaborate on XML development efforts. * Chris Petrilli announced an new Zope mailing list, zope-announce. If you're overwhelmed with the volume of the currently Zope lists, this one could be for you. http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce/ http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/006993.html * Amos Latteier posted a roadmap details some plans for XML development in Zope. Digital Creations will release an alpha XML Zope product in the next couple days. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/007010.html * One of the best IT magazines on the German market, iX Magazine, has a Zope article available in the August 1999 issue by Frank Tegtmeyer. http://www.heise.de/ix/ http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/1999/08/064/ * Andreas Kostyrka announced Navigate 0-0-4. This product allows you to control which objects are displayed. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/006969.html http://www.zope.org/Download/Contrib/ * Arpad Kiss announced a simple Zope chart drawing tool. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/006964.html http://starship.python.net/crew/arpadk/downloads/Chart0.3.0.tar.gz * Andy Dustman announced a new Python interface for MySQL, MySQLdb-0.0.3. This package includes a patch to use it with Zope's MySQL database adapter. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/006946.html http://starship.python.net/crew/adustman * Hurrah Internet now offers Zope hosting. http://www.hurrah.com/ http://www.zope.org/Community/ZHP * Chris Petrilli posted a note about BLOBs and Zope database adapters on the zope-dev list. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-July/000863.html See you next week. -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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Test
by Ken Manheimer 17 Jul '99

17 Jul '99

...ing. This is just a test, please ignore it. >From other archives: +-------------------+ +-------------------+ | . /\ . () . | | . . ._____ . | | . /||\ . / \. . /\____\ . | |____||__________/ \____||____|_____| | / \ | \____________/ \____________/ heh. its old, but so what. Know what this is ?????? thats right, the view from the inside of a stormtroopers helmet !! hahaha Android

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