August 2000 - Zope-Announce

ANNOUNCE: OracleStorage 1.0.0 beta 1
by Jim Fulton 31 Aug '00

31 Aug '00

The initial beta release of an Oracle-based storage for ZODB is available at: http://www.zope.org/Products/OracleStorage The Oracle storage provides full ZODB storage capabilities, including undo and versions, by storing serialized objects and meta data in Oracle tables. 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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mk-zprod - make Zope Python Product framework without the hassle.
by Erik Enge 31 Aug '00

31 Aug '00

This might be useful. """ Everybody knows that prototyping Zope Products in ZClasses is extremely fast and very useful. However, they are hard to extend, and if you need to do some serious rewriting they are a pain in the neck. Good for cute little hacks and prototyping, bad for serious product development. With mk-zprod, prototyping applications in Zope Python Products is as easy and fast as in Z Class - and you retain the flexibility and scalability. Describe your entire class structure in one list and run mk-zprod through the interpreter to have it produce .dtml files, .py files and the necessary directory structure. """ Version 2.0.1 available at: <URL:http://www.zope.org/Members/eenge/mk-zprod>.

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ANNOUNCE ZEO 0.3 Released
by Jim Fulton 31 Aug '00

31 Aug '00

A new release of Zope Enterprise Objects (ZEO) is available at: http://www.zope.org/Products/ZEO. This release fixes a bug that caused spurious conflict errors and that could eventually make it impossible to make changes without restarting a ZEO client (e.g. Zope process). The release also has two enhancements when running the ZEO server on Unix: - When the storage server start script is run as root, the script will switch to a different user (nobody by default). There is a new '-u' option that can be used to specify the user. - The storage server will gracefully close served storages when the server is killed with a SIGTERM or SIGHUP. If a FileStorage is being served, then an index file will be written. If you encounter problems with ZEO, please report them using the ZEO issue tracker at: http://www.zope.org/Products/ZEO/Tracker. 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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August 28th Zope Weekly News
by ethan mindlace fremen 29 Aug '00

29 Aug '00

The Zope "Weekly" News returns after a long hiatus. Those Zope Weekly News items submitted in the past few weeks are included here. The next issue *will* arrive on September fifth. 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 And Now For Something Completely Different: <hr NOSHADE SIZE="0" WIDTH=95%> Documentation -- by Michel Pelletier Week of July 31 - August 4 The O'Reilly Zope Book (title still to be determined) is moving along faster than ever. Last week saw quite a bit of editorial contribution from our new editor at O'Reilly, Laura Lewin. Final outline restructuring is completed, and Chapters one, two and three are moving along toward rough draft completion. This week we'll be posting the new outlines, structure, and chapter content. By next week's ZWN, we hope to have a delivery schedule with O'Reilly and you'll all find out when you can get your hands on a copy of the book. An interesting little factoid is that Amos and I are authoring the book entirely in Structured Text (STX). Using the new 'STX NG', the book structured text is transformed into a DOM object which is used to generate HTML (for the online content), DocBook (for O'Reilly) and PDF (for online printing). STX NG, including its DocBook and PDF capabilities, will be released in future versions of Zope once we wring all the bugs out of it, for now, it can be found on the 'StructuredText-Dev' CVS branch. Week of August 7 - 11 Last week was super busy for the book. Amos and I added over 10,000 words to the book and the Preface, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 are all fully rough drafted and are in O'Reilly's hands for some technical review. There will no doubt be quite a bit more polish applied whilewe go back and forth with O'Reilly. As usual, the entire book can be seen online "on the Zope site":http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/ZB/. We need your technical review too. We understand that it's a bit rough to really get into it without the screenshots but take it a few chunks at a time and let us know what you think. Keep in mind this is *rough draft* material. Please send any comments you have to "us", mailto:docs@digicool.com Week of August 21 - 25 Amos and I have been quite busy on the book, and chapters 1 through 5 are online in rough draft form! Don't let the roughness scare you off, there is *alot* of material up there. The Preface and Chapters 1 and 2 have been proofed by O'Reilly and they will be getting 3, 4, and 5 on Sept. 8th. This week, Amos and I will be adding screenshots and illustrations to the first five chapters, as well as the continuous process of rereading and rewriting. As always, the book can be read online at "http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/ZB/":http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/ZB/, and comments can be sent to "docs(a)digicool.com", mailto:docs@digicool.com. <hr NOSHADE SIZE="0" WIDTH=95%> Zope Status -- by Brian Lloyd Week of July 31 - August 4 Summary Tying up a 2.2.1 release, progress on dev.zope.org projects Last week highlights 18 more Collector issues were closed last week in preparation for a 2.2.1 release. Bug-hunting-Zopistas-of-the-week include: - Steve Alexander for his patches to DateTime - Toby Dickenson who verified a reported parser module problem to be a Python 2.0 bug - Aleksander Salwa sent a patch to fix updating of boolean properties on ZClass property sheets - BitDancer for various ZCatalog fixes - Adam Karpierz fixed a problem with ZPublisher.Client Thanks also to anyone I missed and to those who helped out in verifying fixes. The new dev.zope.org site continued rolling along last week, with several new proposals being added. FourThought posted their proposal for an XSLT product to compliment the upcoming release of their XMLDocument work. For the Zope core, Jim Fulton proposed a naming convention to be used going forward for new Zope APIs. Two proposals became active projects last week. Martijn Pieters' "skinnable objects" project will work to produce an architecture that can support alternate management interfaces so that Zopistas can create localized versions or just experiment without having to hack the Zope core. Evan Simpson's Cache Manager project will introduce a generalized caching framework for Zope objects. This week This week we will be making a Zope 2.2.1 release that resolves all of the known issues that have come up in the course of people upgrading to Zope 2.2 final. We'll also start working on architecting the new public CVS to support dev.zope.org. One other thing I'd like to get done this week is to start on the first of what I hope will be fairly regular series of articles for dev.zope.org that will talk more about our open development process. Week of August 14 - 18 Summary Tying up a 2.2.1 release, progress on dev.zope.org projects Last week highlights Lots of Collector issues were closed in the last two weeks. We've been having network problems so few details this week :) We're still working on one last issue and then we'll be ready to make 2.2.1 final. Dieter Maurer and Adam Karpierz walked away with the award for prolific patch-submitters of the week :) Several proposals on the dev.zope.org site saw a lot of activity as we try to wrap up initial discussion and turn them into projects. The proposal for improved spelling of security assertions will move ahead soon as I'd like to see this implemented in the next Zope feature release. Work is also proceeding on PythonMethods which I also hope will make the next feature release. This week This week we will be making a Zope 2.2.1 release and we'll start architecting the new public CVS to support dev.zope.org. <hr NOSHADE SIZE="0" WIDTH=95%> Zope Studio -- by Martijn Pieters Due to other project work, no news this week "Skinnable And Localizable Objects", http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/SkinnableAndLocalizableObjects/ This project will attempt to provide a mechanism for Zope to discover and use different skins and locales for disk based DTML files and provide Zope Products with localized dictionaries of strings. Last week - Project set up - Initial Use Cases set up and fleshed out This week - Design architecture - Implement Although I requested feedback from the Zope Community on this project, not many people have actually done so! When implemented, it will be much harder to incorporate your ideas, so please read through the project documentation and leave your comments on the Discussion page. <hr NOSHADE SIZE="0" WIDTH=95%> PTK News, PE 2000/08/08 -- by Tres Seaver * New PTK release, 0.8.1/0.8.2. See the "announcement", http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/ZopePTK-0_8_1-release Note especially the "changes", http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/changes and the "install notes", http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/install * Shane Hathaway is working on a "cool refactoring", http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk/2000-August/001337.html of the functionality currently provided by the portal object. * Bill Anderson is proposing a "redesign of membership", http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk/2000-August/001331.html <hr NOSHADE SIZE="0" WIDTH=95%> Zope Web -- by Ethan Fremen Show Stopper Bugs These have been the weeks of the show-stopper bugs: First, a bug that prevented me from copying or pasting my ZClass objects (fixed in 2.2.1), then a bug in ZEO prohibited me from working in versions (fixed in 0.2.3) kept the ZWN from coming out. This Week Zope.org will be opening up a new area for developers that wish to contribute to the next version of Zope.org. This will include a project at dev.zope.org for renewing the products that Zope.org currently uses for it's various content-objects (news items, how-tos, etc) and work on some other products (Notably the Topic object.) Interested parties may contact "me", mailto:mindlace@digicool.com or hang out and wait for the proposal.

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ANNOUNCE: Zope 2.2.1 released
by Brian Lloyd 25 Aug '00

25 Aug '00

Hi all, Zope 2.2.1 has been released - you can download it from Zope.org: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.2.1/ This release contains many bug fixes, including the fixes covered by all Hotfixes to date. Special thanks go to Dieter Maurer, Adam Karpierz, Jeff Sasmor and others who have been prolific patch submitters over the last few weeks. For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt and HISTORY.txt files for the release: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.2.1/CHANGES.txt http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.2.1/HISTORY.txt Note that we have also posted "diff" updates as .tgz files that will let you easily upgrade an existing 2.2.x site. These updates are available for those currently using the 2.2.x source release or the 2.2.x binary releases for either solaris or linux. To apply a differential update to your site: - download the appropriate .tgz file from zope.org - shutdown your Zope process - copy the .tgz to your Zope directory and extract it - run w_pcgi or wo_pcgi *if you are not using a binary release* - restart your process Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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ANN:Interbase adaptor win32 binary
by Luis Forra 19 Aug '00

19 Aug '00

You can download from http://clientes.netvisao.pt/luiforra/gvib regards Luis Forra ---

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[Ann] Localizer: helps building international sites
by Dieter Maurer 19 Aug '00

19 Aug '00

"Localizer.py" contains a small external method that helps to build multi-lingual sites. It is used as a SiteAccessRule (-> product SiteAccess, to be found on zope.org) It redirects URL traversals via a general folder to a language specific folder if the target is not found at the general place. In this case, the target is searched in the current target language folder and a default language folder. More information in the source documentation. The module is for Zope 2.1.6 and requires SiteAccess. Download: URL:http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope/Localizer.py Dieter

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ANNOUNCE ZEO 0.2.3 Released
by Jim Fulton 18 Aug '00

18 Aug '00

A new bug-fix release of ZEO is available at: http://www.zope.org/Products/ZEO. This release makes versions work with ZEO. Previously, versions were almost entirely broken. See the CHANGES.txt file in the release for a list of other bugs fixed. If you encounter problems with ZEO, please report them using the ZEO issue tracker at: http://www.zope.org/Products/ZEO/Tracker. 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: updated Hotfix release for recent mutable object issue
by Brian Lloyd 18 Aug '00

18 Aug '00

Hi all - We recently made a Hotfix release to address an issue dealing with Zope APIs returning mutable objects that could be changed inappropriately from DTML (Hotfix_08_09_2000). After further investigation, there was another aspect to the problem that was not addressed in the recent hotfix. I've uploaded a new hotfix release (Hotfix_2000-08-17) that supercedes the one from the 9th and includes the extra fix required. http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/Hotfix_2000-08-17/ If you run a Zope site and allow untrusted users to edit DTML on your site, you should install this updated hotfix. There is no need to uninstall the prior hotfix release. These fixes will also be in the 2.2.1 release, expected next week. Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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EventLogManager1.0
by Chris McDonough 16 Aug '00

16 Aug '00

Folks, Available at http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/Products/EventLogManager is my attempt to write a somewhat smarter logging facility for Zope. It supports complex rules processing and configurable targets (syslog and file). It's been tested under Linux only but should work on Win32 and other UNIX derivatives. Give it a roll. Chris McDonough Digital Creations Publishers of Zope - http://www.zope.org

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