September 1999 - Zope-Announce

ANNOUNCE: DAs updated (Oracle/ODBC)
by Christopher Petrilli 02 Sep '99

02 Sep '99

Gang, I've updated the Oracle and ODBC DA's to work with Zope2. They are available at: http://www.zope.org:18200/Products/ The Oracle DA is released and Level 3 (full multi-threading), whereas the ODBC DA is beta, and serialized. 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 Christopher Petrilli 01 Sep '99

01 Sep '99

Hi there! Filling in for Amos as he tries to get the new Zope site readied for public presentation! It's still in beta... Well, this has been the busiest week of all, or at least in a long long time, for Zope development. Not only was beta 6 released, but the final release of Zope 2 has finally been made! In celebration, we're going to continue working on documentation and resolving any outstanding issues! Other items of interest this past week: * First! Zope 2.0 is finally released and out of BETA! :-) Find all the gory details here: http://www.zope.org/Download/Releases/Zope-2.0.0/ * Lots of new items (HOW-TOs, contributed software) on the new beta site. Take a look! http://www.zope.org:18200 * It was revealed that the <dtml-sendmail> tag doesn't participate in the transaction machinery http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008968.html * Juergen Specht started an interesting thread on data validation and the difficulty in even figuring out what an e-mail address is. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008982.html * Zope gets some good press in the TechWeb publication, which Paul shares with us all. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/009011.html * Various people expressed the concerns with search sites crawling a dynamic site like Zope, but perhaps it's not an issue as is discussed in the thread. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/009058.html * It's discovered that you can't use tree tags with SQL queries the way you might expect, but there are some solutions. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/009089.html * Evan Simpson reveals his first attempt at embedded Python code objects in the Zope database. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/009107.html * John Udell provides some much welcome publicity on Zope as well: http://www.byte.com/column/threads/BYT19990824S0013 * A new version of the ZOracleDA was released, providing full thread-safety under Zope2. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/009192.html * Beehive in Germany releases a product to help write products. Is that a meta-product? ;-) http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/009225.html Zigning off for now, Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli Python Powered Digital Creations, Inc. | petrilli(a)digicool.com http://www.digicool.com

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ANNOUNCE: Zope 2.0.0 final released
by Brian Lloyd 01 Sep '99

01 Sep '99

Hi all, We are happy to announce that at long last Zope 2.0.0 final has been released! Zope 2 is the result of a lot of hard work by both Digital Creations and the Zope community - thanks to all of you who have contributed bug reports, patches, feedback and good ideas to the effort. We feel that Zope 2 represents a great leap forward, and we hope you'll agree that the time spent has been worth it. Zope 2 includes: - A high performance, multithreaded publishing environment - ZODB 3, the next generation of the Zope Object Database - Z Classes, a new mechanism for building Zope applications - Built in searching and indexing support with ZCatalog - WebDAV level 1 support - FTP support - Support for XML-RPC clients. - ZServer, the integration of Zope and Medusa, - Builtin XML support and DOM interfaces - Many other sundry big significant items, such as: o Look and feel improvements, o Tighter security, o Simpler creation of Python products. Zope 2.0 distributions are available on both the "official" Zope.org website at: http://www.zope.org/ as well as on the new Zope.org beta site at http://www.zope.org:18200. Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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ANNOUNCE: XML Document 1.0a2
by Amos Latteier 01 Sep '99

01 Sep '99

Hi, I'm pleased to announce the second alpha release of XML Document. It's available on the new Zope.org site: http://www.zope.org:18200/Products/XMLDocument 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. This release fixes quite a few bugs including one that broke ZClasses. Also DOM support is much more complete. Have fun! -Amos

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