July 2000 - Zope-Announce

ANN: Border Aware Image Update for Zope 2.2.0
by Jon Franz 25 Jul '00

25 Jul '00

The Border Aware Image add-on has been updated for Zope 2.2.0 - installation has been heavily updated and is now much easier. see: http://www.zope.org/Members/Coventry/Border_aware_image Also, the alternate syntax patch/add-on has been tested with Zope 2.2.0 now, and no changes were needed. The new documentation reflects this at: http://www.zope.org/Members/Coventry/dtml_shortcut Also: I will be submitting a proposal soon to dev.zope.org: the project would handle evaluating and integrating small add-ons such as these and others into the Zope core, please email me if you would be interested in participating. ~ Jonathan M. Franz ~ Senior Developer/Technical Leader ~ ~ SW-Dev Division, Springdale, Ohio Office ~ 513.618.2248 ~ ~ OneNet Communications (A USNet/MDM Company) www.one.net ~

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Announcement: zCommerce First Public Release!
by Nick Garcia 24 Jul '00

24 Jul '00

CodeIt announces the much-anticipated release of zCommerce. zCommerce, in it's first public release, provides a flexible shopping cart and order processing engine that you can use along with a few lines of DTML to develop just about any kind of e-commerce application. Our hope is that along with your help, we can develop a standard for e-commerce components that are fully customizable and scalable to meet the needs of even the most demanding e-commerce sites. "CodeIt is a strong believer in Zope and open source in general. Being a recognized leader in the Zope community we believe we have a responsibility to Zope and everyone else in the community to help improve it, hence the alpha release of zCommerce. We look forward to your comments, suggestions and patches." - Jason Reid, CEO CodeIt Computing zCommerce can be downloaded from http://www.zope.org/Members/ngarcia/zCommerce. More information on ZCommerce in general will be available at http://www.zope-store.com. CodeIt Computing is one of the leading providers of Zope based solutions. We offer a full range of services from Zope Hosting to custom application development. Located in Southern California, we design custom sites and applications exclusively in Zope. Please visit our website at http://www.codeit.com to find out more about us, and our exciting career opportunities. -- Nick Garcia | ngarcia(a)codeit.com CodeIt Computing | http://codeit.com

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new LocalFS version 0.9.5
by Jonothan Farr 23 Jul '00

23 Jul '00

It's been a while since the last LocalFS release. I wanted to fix a couple of major issues for the next release but I'm a little stuck. I decided to post a minor bug fix release instead. This release fixes the following issues. - Fixed bobobase_modification_time. - Fixed cross-platform bug calculating object id in manage_upload. - Added optional 'id' parameter to manage_upload to allow the caller to specify the new object id. - Added optional 'action' parameter to manage_upload to allow redirecting somewhere other than the default 'manage_workspace'. It is available at: http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/Products/LocalFS I've also posted my to do list at: http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/Products/LocalFS/todo So now you can see what I'm working on and what I've done for the next release at any given time. Enjoy! --jfarr

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Russian Python and Zope User Group
by Oleg Broytmann 22 Jul '00

22 Jul '00

Hello! Russian-speaking Python and Zope User Group is happy to announce its site http://zope.net.ru/ Our biggest achivement is that we are alive and doing well! We are the small but active group of Python and Zope users from all over Russia, CIS and ex-USSR. Our site has three main sections: About, Python and Zope, plus the first page and imported news. The first section, About, presents our group and give details of our mail-list. This is small section, and we plan to automatically update the number of maillist subscribers. Python section is even smaller now. We plan to put documentation there, including russian translations. The biggest section of the site is Zope. We already have good introductory materials, FAQ, news. We plan to add documentation and special demos. The very special part of the site is imported news. We import news from "friendly" sites such as AppWatch, FreshMeat, Linux Weekly News etc. The whole site is a big demo by itself. Visitors can view DTML code of every page and subobjects. Few people asked to download exported version and I provided them (after removing passwords of editors). HTML version of the announce in Russian is at http://zope.net.ru/announce.html Oleg. ---- Oleg Broytmann http://www.zope.org/Members/phd/ phd2(a)mail.com Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

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July 20th Zope Weekly News
by ethan mindlace fremen 20 Jul '00

20 Jul '00

Many exciting new developments within the Zope community, including the release of Zope 2.2 final, a Zope book and Guides fusion, functional Zope Studio, and Zope.org architectural changes. The opinions expressed in Zope Weekly news are solely the authors', and not the opinions of Digital Creations, The Zope Community at-large, or the Spanish Inquisition. You can always get to the most recent Zope Weekly News with "one convenient URL", http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZWN/current The next week of zope weekly news will not be happening, in order to allow the ZWN to get back on a Tuesday schedule. And Now For Something Completely Different: <hr NOSHADE SIZE="0" WIDTH=95%> Documentation -- by Michel Pelletier Work has progressed steadily on reforming the O'Reilly Zope book into official documentation. The new outline for the book is online at the "Docs Wiki":http://www.zope.org/Wikis/Docs/ZopeBook. Chris McDonough has also posted a first draft outline for the Zope Product Developer's Guide "here":http://www.zope.org/Wikis/Docs/ProductDevelopersGuide. Amos was out last week for Zope Training and will be out this week for the O'Reilly Open Source convention where he gets to talk to the O'Reilly folks about the book and license issues which are still undecided. <hr NOSHADE SIZE="0" WIDTH=95%> Zope Status -- by Brian Lloyd Summary A short report this week due to OSCON, but a very big week! Last week highlights Zope 2.2.0 final was released! Many thanks to those who helped to work out issues in the betas (too many to name them all here!). I fully expect that we'll scare up more issues as people upgrade to 2.2 - there will probably be a 2.2.1 in a few weeks to address what shakes out of the upgrade process. Another big item last week was the "announcement of the new dev.zope.org site", http://www.zope.org/Members/Brian/News/announcing_dev_zope_org the first major step in opening up the development process for the Zope core and other major initiatives: Many thanks to folks like Chris Withers, Erik Enge (Technically not last week, but due to holiday schedule bumps) ZEO 0.2.1 was released with fixes for ZEO clients on certain platforms and several other "bug fixes", http://www.zope.org/Products/ZEO/ Finally Nick Petrelli posted an, ah, inglorious review of Zope for LinuxWorld. I'm sure this will be a "hot topic in the weeks to come", http://linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2000-07/lw-07-penguin_2.html Next week Next week will pretty much be consumed by OSCON in Monterey. When we get back we'll be catching up on how 2.2 upgrades are going and make some progress on some of the projects on dev.zope.org. <hr NOSHADE SIZE="0" WIDTH=95%> Zope Studio -- by Martijn Pieters Last Week - Paul Everitt will be "presenting Zope Studio":http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/e_sess/853 at the "O'Reilly Open Source Convention":http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/ this week. In order to have something to show for, all outstanding Zope Studio issues with the current Mozilla codebase have been resolved and checked into CVS. This means the the current CVS code actually does something. =) - Rumour has it that Paul has a heavily enhanced version of Zope Studio to demonstrate, that actually let's you edit and save DTML and view your server through it's interface. - New snapshots have been created of the current CVS code. You can download them from the "Zope Studio Product page":/Products/ZopeStudio. This time round, you get code that actualy works. This Week - The new snapshot will soon also be directly installable into Mozilla with a XPI script, directly from the webpage. Statistics - For the bugfixes one Tracker item was filed, and has now been resolved. <hr NOSHADE SIZE="0" WIDTH=95%> Zope Web -- by Ethan Fremen New Features: o Zope.org runs under zope 2.2.0 final! That's right, no more CVS checkout :) o Wikis are now searchable - and they have history, too! This was a little bumpy, with Steve Alexandar pointing out a search bug. o Zope.org is now behind Apache using ProxyPass. We continue to use Apache for its log files. o dev.zope.org opened its doors for projects. Bug Fixes o ZDom didn't play nice with the security software, breaking XMLDocument. This has been fixed and will be found in zope 2.2.1. o Using reserved names in the Interfaces wiki made it inaccessable. Renaming them fixed this. o Wikis, using CatalogAware, seem to be indexing themselves with a path that has / prepended. None of the other products are. This required some revamping to get things to work: now they're functional but not correct. Thanks to Richard Barrett for pointing this one out. Open Bugs o Catalog is giving some serious pain. It is dying on What's New and sorting on Searches. Fixes due soon- thanks to Dennis Nichols and Marc Gehling for reporting this one. o The ZopeSite product that covers many of the document types is unable to partake in the rename/cut/paste machinery. Next Week o Transition to ZEO, hopefully ending the "architecture" phase of the org roadmap and moving on to the next. Statistics o 53 net new subscribers to the Zope list, with 12 Zope and 13 zope-announce subscribers leading the pack. Welcome to the world of Zope!

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new MetaPublisher documentation
by Mark Pratt 18 Jul '00

18 Jul '00

hello all, 2 announcements: - we have updated the MetaPublisher user manual to include documentation about (plug-in) field types. the user manual is approximately 28 pages in pdf format. - a german version of the MetaPublisher manual is now also availible you can get both via this Zope Treasures link http://www.zope-treasures.com/sybSQL/Treasures/found.html?rating=t_id&word=… *or* via beehive's website http://www.beehive.de regards, mark -------------------------------------------------------------- mark pratt (managing director) mark(a)beehive.de beehive elektronische medien GmbH http://www.beehive.de phone: +49 30 847-82 0 fax: +49 30 847-82 299

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Announcing dev.zope.org
by Brian Lloyd 14 Jul '00

14 Jul '00

Hello all, For some time now, it has been a goal of ours to open up the Zope development process. Some of you may have heard me promise this at the Zope track back in January. Well, it took a little longer than I had hoped it would, but I'm happy to announce an important step in making that a reality: http://dev.zope.org. dev.zope.org is the place for discovering, initiating, and contributing to work on the core Zope platform and related Zope technologies. You can think of it as the rough equivalent of what Mozilla.org is to Mozilla. Why has it taken so long? Because there is much more to "opening the development process" than simply doling out CVS access. Evolving a relatively large and complex piece of software like Zope is a non-trivial task, and doing it in a highly distributed environment is harder still. The dev.zope.org site will provide the background materials and tools to ensure that work on Zope is consistent in organization and execution. It will also help those new to Zope development to come up to speed and get involved quickly. There is still plenty to do be done on the site, but it is done enough to start using it so I want to start learning by doing. If you have questions or comments on the dev site, please send them to me at brian(a)digicool.com and CC the zope-dev list (which is where I expect traffic related to dev.zope.org should go in the near term). Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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Zope 2.2 final released!
by Brian Lloyd 14 Jul '00

14 Jul '00

Hi all, Zope 2.2.0 final has been released - you can download it from Zope.org: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.2.0/ Many thanks go to all of those who have worked with the alpha and beta releases and helped work through the more than 110 (!) issues that have been closed since Zope 2.1.6 came out. The Zope 2.2 release includes: - The new security policy implementation and object ownership that addresses the server-side trojan issue: http://www.zope.org/Members/jim/ZopeSecurity/ServerSideTrojan - The new online help system which provides context-sensitive help for all Zope management screens and includes Zope API documentation - A built-in Zope tutorial to get new users started with Zope - Basic internal support for mountable object databases - A new "history" tab for selected objects that provides access to previous revisions through the web - Better performance on many systems as a result of setting a more appropriate value for the "check interval" of the Python runtime - Many, many bugfixes! For more information on what is new in Zope 2.2, see the CHANGES.txt and HISTORY.txt files for the release: - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.2.0/CHANGES.txt - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.2.0/HISTORY.txt Note that there are important changes to the security model in Zope 2.2 that both site maintainers and Zope product developers need to be aware of. Site maintainers should read the document "Upgrading to Zope 2.2.0" for important information on upgrading their Zope sites: - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.2.0/upgrading_to_220 Product authors should read the "Product author's guide to Zope 2.2+ security" to learn about the changes in 2.2 that may affect their products: - http://www.zope.org/Documentation/How-To/ProductAuthorUpdateGuide Enjoy! Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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Ann: EventFolder 0.9
by Jeff Sasmor 14 Jul '00

14 Jul '00

Ann: First release of 'EventFolder'. It's a drop-in black-box that implements a Event Calendar. You can see it in operation here: http://www.ptang.com or download it here: http://www.zope.org/Members/jeffsasmor/EventFolder This is NOT YET TESTED WITH ZOPE 2.2 have fun! Jeff Sasmor

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ANN: Zope Treasures - ZClass/Product Search Engine
by Mark Pratt 13 Jul '00

13 Jul '00

hello all, beehive is pleased to announce the release of: http://www.zope-treasures.com search by keyword or category for DTML Code, Products, External Methods and Zope Products. additionally you can: - rate - comment - add and view additional documentation links - submit your own treasures - see what's been added to Zope Treasures in the last week (Just off the Boat) - see which products got the highest ratings (Best of the Raitings) there is also a RDF/RSS file availible for the "Just off the Boat" section -- at: http://www.zope-treasures.com/sybSQL/Treasures/last7rdf regards, mark and the rest of the bees -------------------------------------------------------------- mark pratt (managing director) mark(a)beehive.de beehive elektronische medien GmbH http://www.beehive.de phone: +49 30 847-82 0 fax: +49 30 847-82 299

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