May 2001 - Zope-Announce

ANNOUNCE: Zope 2.4.0 alpha 1 released
by Brian Lloyd 31 May '01

31 May '01

Hello all, Zope 2.4.0 alpha 1 has been released - you can download it from Zope.org: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.4.0a1/ Highlights of what is new in Zope 2.4: - Zope 2.4 supports (and requires) Python 2.1 - New restricted execution architecture - WebDAV Level 2 locking support - New "WebDAV Access" permission - A new built-in 'Authenticated' role - Product refresh without restart during development - New "Drop-in indexes" support for ZCatalog Be sure to see the Zope 2.4 Migration Guide: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.4.0/Zope24MigrationGuide.html which outlines the new features and provides other important information for users of Zope 2.4. 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/2.4.0a1/CHANGES.txt http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.4.0a1/HISTORY.txt For more information on the available Zope releases, guidance for selecting the right distribution and installation instructions, please see: http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Misc/InstallingZope.html Note that this is an alpha release, so it is available as a source distribution only. We will make binary releases available with the first beta release. Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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Zope Survey results posted
by Gary Graham 30 May '01

30 May '01

Digital Creations recently sent out a survey request to find out more about how Zope is being used. The results of that survey request have been posted. If you would care to view the survey summary see : http://www.zope.org/Members/gary/Zope_survey Thanks again to everyone for participating! --Gary Gary Graham gary.graham(a)digicool.com Digital Creations office : 540.361.1720 mobile : 540.840.3813 fax : 540.371.1201 main : 540.371.6909 www.digicool.com www.zope.com www.python.org www.zope.org

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proiektor 0.4.0 released
by Stephan Richter 29 May '01

29 May '01

Hello everyone, I am proud to announce that proiektor 0.4.0, iuveno's Groupware and Projectmanagement System, was just released and the demo server (http://demo.iuveno-net.de/) was updated. Even though not complete, the proiektor offers already some nice functionality.</p> Some extras: * Fully skinable. The concept was proven when an Austrian company used the system for a very different site and the adjustments were minimal. * Fully localized. The ZBabel Translation System is used to make the proiektor a multilingual tool. Currently we have a German and an English translation. The translation system can also be used to change the meaning of the vocabulary; for example, a 'Project' could be a 'Course'. * A nice Installer. Installation could not be easier, once the database is setup and all the Zope products are installed. An installer will lead you through all the required steps and lets you easily update from older to newer versions. * Multiple Instances. You can have multiple instances on top of one proiektor installation. This is especially useful, if you want to use the system as an ASP service. If you are interested in the proiektor, please go to http://demo.iuveno-net.de. There you can download the products, use a demo and sign up for the mailing list. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU - Physics and Chemistry Student Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management

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ZBabel 0.9.90 (or 1.0.0 RC1) released
by Stephan Richter 28 May '01

28 May '01

Hello everyone, Andrew Milton and I are pleased to announce the ZBabel Translation System 0.9.90 (or 1.0.0 RC1 -- Andrew does not like letters in versions ;-) ). With this new version the functionality and stability of ZBabel increased quiet a bit. Furthermore, proiektor (iuveno's OS groupware and project management tool) uses ZBabel to make proiektor completely localized! The link: http://www.zope.org/Members/TheJester/ZBabel Here are the changes since the last release (0.0.3): ===================================== - A BasicZBabelTag class was made, which is like an abstraction of the DTML-BABEL tag (read next point). - You can now use a second singelton tag called DTML-FISH, so you can easier work with menu-option-like translations. - There is a support class called LabelSupport, which lets you specify a label for each string ('label' is just another language). There is also an entire part for the ZMI for it, which lets you quickly make translations. - Some Management views were added to allow you to manage your SQL Methods better and make adjustments later. For example, you will be directly forwarded to the "Create Table/Views" screen, if no Phrases table exists yet in your DB. - The attribute 'towerId' was added, so the user can choose the Babel Tower that is used for the translation; if the id was not found, the first found one will be chosen. This attribute/parameter is optional. - You can also localize expressions, such dates and times. A time conversion would look like that: <dtml-fish label=fmtDateTime dst=en data="ZopeTime()"> The 'en' text entry looks like that: "data.strftime('%m/%d/%Y')", which is evaluated at run time. - The "literal" option works now. You can make translations of text pieces that contain variables, and still have only one translation. - You can import/export the entire dictionary. It is pretty cheap implemented, but it works great. - You can filter your label view, so that you can see easier whether you translated a phrase already. - Plenty of little bug fixes. Planned features after 1.0: =================== - make ZBabel data-storage independent (using SmartObjects?) - make the storage namespace-specific, so that you can have a dictionary for calendars, addresses, ... - write a patch for DTML-VAR, so that the translation is supported natively. - a garbage collector, that can find unused translations. I hope you enjoy the product. I am sure it will solve some of your headaches. ;-) Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU - Physics and Chemistry Student Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management

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May 26th Zope Weekly News
by ethan mindlace fremen 26 May '01

26 May '01

Follow-up last week's threads, Page Templates is at 1.3.1, yet another way to talk to your zope, 2.4 alpha early next week, and no html mail in this week's ZWN. 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. If you or your company are doing something cool with zope, "submit it to Zope Weekly News", mail:zope-web@zope.org for possible inclusion. ----- Upcoming Events EuroZope Conference The EuroZope crew is organizing a two day Zope only conference in Berlin on the 12th and 13th of July. Those interested in participating should join the discussion on the "EuroZope mailinglist", http://www.comlounge.net/mailman/listinfo/eurozope ----- Page Templates -- by Evan Simpson Page Templates are now at version 1.3.1, and should be used with TAL 1.3 and ZTUtils 1.0. They are compatible with Zope 2.3.x and can also use the Restricted Python machinery that will be introduced in Zope 2.4. Based on a survey of ZPT mailing list subscribers, a number of minor changes were made to expression syntax. There is now a PageTemplateFile class, and it is used to implement the Page Template add and edit pages. Python expressions can use path expressions (and other expression types) through builtin functions named after each type, as in "python:path('x/y | a/b') + 1". There aren't any changes on the drawing board at the moment, so it's time to buckle down and write some more documentation. ----- 101 ways to talk to your Zope Last week, I talked about different ways to talk to your zope. I forgot to mention "zopeshell":http://www.zope.org/Members/sf/zopeshell , a shell like utility that acts as a unix cli to manipulate your zope. ----- Biggest vs. Longest There's been some discussion of which zope has been up the longest on the Zope list as well as ZopeZen. Looks like the current record is "149 days":http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/msg/zope-List:540619 Tim Cook has zope running on an "IBM S/390":http://32.97.40.47:8080/ serving his Free Practice Management solution for doctors, which, until I hear otherwise, is the biggest hardware running Zope. As a side note, you really don't want to be there when PythonLabs folks start comparing dicts... ----- Zope Status by Brian Lloyd Summary On the brink of 2.4 alpha Recent News We were planning for a Zope 2.4 alpha the week of May 21, but as of this writing it looks like it will actually be early next week (the week of the 28th), as there are still a few loose ends to follow up. You can look at the 2.4 plan to "follow the status of the 2.4 track", http://dev.zope.org/Resources/zope_240_plan.html The "Zope CVS Migration", http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZopeCVSMigration/ has unfortunately not gotten the attention that it needs this week - I hope to rectify that next week. ----- Biggest & Longest Tim Cook, not willing to settle for having Zope on the biggest hardware, had to have the longest running zope, as well - 182 days as of May 23. Congrats, Tim! ----- Zope Web by Ethan Fremen "Zope.org enhancement", http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZopeOrgCollaborationEnhancement I've done a lot of work on the use cases, so if you want to see how you would use the new zope.org, come take a look! Kill HTML Mail Everyone, by a 6:1 margin, wants html mail to be rejected. I will spend some time working on making mail that has HTML attachments be either refused with a message to the sender indicating the lists don't accept html mail, or have the html part stripped off. The former is more likely. -EOT-

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May 26th Zope Weekly News
by ethan mindlace fremen 26 May '01

26 May '01

Follow-up last week's threads, Page Templates is at 1.3.1, yet another way to talk to your zope, 2.4 alpha early next week, and no html mail in this week's ZWN. 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. If you or your company are doing something cool with zope, "submit it to Zope Weekly News", mail:zope-web@zope.org for possible inclusion. ----- Upcoming Events EuroZope Conference The EuroZope crew is organizing a two day Zope only conference in Berlin on the 12th and 13th of July. Those interested in participating should join the discussion on the "EuroZope mailinglist", http://www.comlounge.net/mailman/listinfo/eurozope ----- Page Templates -- by Evan Simpson Page Templates are now at version 1.3.1, and should be used with TAL 1.3 and ZTUtils 1.0. They are compatible with Zope 2.3.x and can also use the Restricted Python machinery that will be introduced in Zope 2.4. Based on a survey of ZPT mailing list subscribers, a number of minor changes were made to expression syntax. There is now a PageTemplateFile class, and it is used to implement the Page Template add and edit pages. Python expressions can use path expressions (and other expression types) through builtin functions named after each type, as in "python:path('x/y | a/b') + 1". There aren't any changes on the drawing board at the moment, so it's time to buckle down and write some more documentation. ----- 101 ways to talk to your Zope Last week, I talked about different ways to talk to your zope. I forgot to mention "zopeshell":http://www.zope.org/Members/sf/zopeshell , a shell like utility that acts as a unix cli to manipulate your zope. ----- Biggest vs. Longest There's been some discussion of which zope has been up the longest on the Zope list as well as ZopeZen. Looks like the current record is "149 days":http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/msg/zope-List:540619 Tim Cook has zope running on an "IBM S/390":http://32.97.40.47:8080/ serving his Free Practice Management solution for doctors, which, until I hear otherwise, is the biggest hardware running Zope. As a side note, you really don't want to be there when PythonLabs folks start comparing dicts... ----- Zope Status by Brian Lloyd Summary On the brink of 2.4 alpha Recent News We were planning for a Zope 2.4 alpha the week of May 21, but as of this writing it looks like it will actually be early next week (the week of the 28th), as there are still a few loose ends to follow up. You can look at the 2.4 plan to "follow the status of the 2.4 track", http://dev.zope.org/Resources/zope_240_plan.html The "Zope CVS Migration", http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZopeCVSMigration/ has unfortunately not gotten the attention that it needs this week - I hope to rectify that next week. ----- Biggest & Longest Tim Cook, not willing to settle for having Zope on the biggest hardware, had to have the longest running zope, as well - 182 days as of May 23. Congrats, Tim! ----- Zope Web by Ethan Fremen "Zope.org enhancement", http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZopeOrgCollaborationEnhancement I've done a lot of work on the use cases, so if you want to see how you would use the new zope.org, come take a look! Kill HTML Mail Everyone, by a 6:1 margin, wants html mail to be rejected. I will spend some time working on making mail that has HTML attachments be either refused with a message to the sender indicating the lists don't accept html mail, or have the html part stripped off. The former is more likely. -EOT-

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Kaivo DocumentLibrary 0.3 Released
by Casey Duncan 25 May '01

25 May '01

Kaivo is pleased to announce the 0.3 release of their Zope document library product. This product is a fully customizable, drop-in application designed to give you document categorization and full-text searching in a variety of file formats. This document file indexing functionality can also be used separately from the library as well. The new version fixes more bugs and adds more managment capabilities, plus some other new bells and whistles. Check it out! http://www.zope.org/Members/Kaivo/DocumentLibrary P.S. Thanks go out to all of you who have tried the product and given feedback. You have made a big difference! Enjoy. -- | Casey Duncan | Kaivo, Inc. | cduncan(a)kaivo.com `------------------>

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mod_pcgi2 version 2.0.0
by Oleg Broytmann 25 May '01

25 May '01

Hello! http://www.zope.org/Members/phd/mod_pcgi2/ mod_pcgi2 - Apache module for Zope/PCGI - reached version 2.0.0! This version compiles and runs under Apache 2.0, as well as Apache 1.3+. Oleg. ---- Oleg Broytmann http://www.zope.org/Members/phd/ phd(a)phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

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Formulator 0.9.2 released
by Martijn Faassen 23 May '01

23 May '01

Hi everybody, Time for another release of Formulator; version 0.9.2 is now released. Formulator is the Zope product for constructing and validating web forms in an easy, object oriented way through the Zope Management Interface. Changes include the ability to rename field groups, better handling of sticky forms and the ability to plug in external validators. See the changes for more details: http://www.zope.org/Members/faassen/Formulator/changes And of course, to download Formulator just go here: http://www.zope.org/Members/faassen/Formulator Let me know if you have any feedback! Regards, Martijn

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Kaivo MSWord Munger Product Released
by Casey Duncan 21 May '01

21 May '01

Ever wish there was an easy way to get those 50 MSWord documents you have converted to *clean* HTML and uploaded into Zope as DTML methods or documents? Well, look no further then the MSWordMunger! It eats Word docs for breakfast, spits out some decent HTML code, wraps standard_html_header and standard_html_footer around it and packages it neatly into a standard DTML method or document. When you must use Word, munge it! Download at: http://www.zope.org/Members/Kaivo/MSWordMunger Enjoy. -- | Casey Duncan | Kaivo, Inc. | cduncan(a)kaivo.com `------------------>

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