October 2002 - Zope-Announce

CMF Deployment 1.0 beta1
by kapil thangavelu 22 Oct '02

22 Oct '02

CMFDeployment Introduction This tool allows for static deployment of a CMF site to multiple target systems akin to the deployment features of advanced commerical CMS systems like interwoven or vignette. Features - Allows for custom skins for deployment separate then content management interface. - allows for business logic to filter deployed content using TALES expressions and Python Scripts - Pluggable Deployment Strategies (Incremental, Full) - Pluggable Deployment Protocols, (currently RsyncSSH) - retraction of deployed content (using RsyncSSH protocol) - Deployment to multiple servers - Merging of DirectoryView (skin) resources into merged content. - Provides for Mime and Extension mapping to content - Provides for configurable URI Resolving of internal links within rendered content. - extensive statistics gathering and logging frameworks - and many more. this feature set describes the 1.0.0-beta1 version. Downloads - "here":http://www.zope.org/Members/k_vertigo/Products/CMFDeployment CVS - "here": http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/collective/CMFDeployment/ License - "GPL":http://www.fsf.org Credits "Kapil Thangavelu":mailto://kvthan@wm.edu - Author I'd like to thank alan runyaga for much dicussion and feedback on this tool. It has benefited greatly from his insights. I'd like to thank my employer for allowing me to opensource this tool that was developed at their cost. Without companies and clients such as them the open source world would be a much poorer place.

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ZODB 3.1b3 announced
by Jeremy Hylton 21 Oct '02

21 Oct '02

I am pleased to announce the third and final beta releases of ZODB3 and ZEO2. These last beta releases were prompted by last minute problems with ZEO signal handling and the FileStorage restore() method. See NEWS.txt and ZEO-NEWS.txt for details. The final release will be on Friday. Please give the betas a try before then! ZODB is an object database for Python that provides transactional persistence while requiring few, if any, changes to application logic. ZEO is a client-server storage system for ZODB. The ZEO2 package is released on its own and as part of ZODB3. The separate release is for Zope users, who already have ZODB. You can get source releases from http://www.zope.org/Products/StandaloneZODB and http://www.zope.org/Products/ZEO. The ZODB3 release requires a C compiler, while the ZEO2 release is pure Python. The components you get with the ZODB3 release are as follows: - Core ZODB, including the persistence machinery - Standard storages such as FileStorage - Supporting modules such as ExtensionClass - The persistent BTrees modules - ZEO (versions 1 and 2) - Experimental Berkeley storages - Updated documentation The beta release contains roughly the same version of ZODB that was included in Zope 2.6. The two releases are not directly coordinated, so there may be some subtle differences. Many people have contributed to ZODB3. Special thanks to Toby Dickenson for the new ZODB Connection cache. Many people at Zope Corp. have contributed code and tested unreleased versions. Jeremy

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Zope 2.6.0 Released
by Matthew T. Kromer 18 Oct '02

18 Oct '02

ZOPE 2.6.0 Released Zope 2.6.0 represents the first Zope release formed with a large number of community contributions. You may download Zope 2.6.0 from Zope.org: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.6.0/ Users of the Zope source release should note that Python 2.1.3 is now the required platform. Python 2.1.3 includes a fix to an issue that could cause crashes in Zope. Particular features of interest in Zope 2.6.0: - Gzip content compression when serving pages - ZCTextIndex plug-in index - Signal Handling and Log Rotation - Addition of a new default view setting ability - New profiling abilities - Improved daemon mode - Enhanced text indexing - Improved object cache control - Automatic browser ID string embedding in URLs - Automatic quoting of form variables implicitly retrieved from REQUEST but not REQUEST.form - Major improvments to BTree and Catalog code - i18n translation support for TAL - Bugfixes for Colletor issues 61, 72, 79, 117, 144, 151, 160, 178, 186, 196, 238, 271, 272, 292, 304, 358, 372, 402, 411, 412, 421, 433, 437, 446, 448, 454, 458, 465, 478, 510, 512, 516, 517, 525, 528, 538, 539, 541, 547, 550, 573, 574, 580, 581, 583, 586, 603, 605, 612 - Linux binary build includes Python 2.1.3 with Large File Support enabled compiled against glibc-2.1.3 - Solaris binary build includes Python 2.1.3 with Large File Support enabled compiled against Solaris 8 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/2.6.0/CHANGES.txt - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.6.0/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 -- Matt Kromer Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com/

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Zope 2.6.0 Beta 2 Released
by Matthew T. Kromer 14 Oct '02

14 Oct '02

ZOPE 2.6.0 Beta 2 Released Zope 2.6.0 represents the first Zope release formed with a large number of community contributions. You may download Zope 2.6.0b2 from Zope.org: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.6.0b2/ Users of the Zope source release should note that Python 2.1.3 is now the required platform. Python 2.1.3 includes a fix to an issue that could cause crashes in Zope. Particular features of interest in Zope 2.6.0b2: * Gzip content compression when serving pages * ZCTextIndex plug-in index * Signal Handling and Log Rotation * Addition of a new default view setting ability * New profiling abilities * Improved daemon mode * Enhanced text indexing * Improved object cache control * Automatic browser ID string embedding in URLs * Automatic quoting of form variables implicitly retrieved from REQUEST but not REQUEST.form * Major improvments to BTree and Catalog code * i18n translation support for TAL * Bugfixes for Colletor issues 61, 72, 79, 117, 144, 151, 160, 178, 186, 196, 238, 271, 272, 292, 304, 358, 372, 402, 412, 421, 433, 437, 446, 448, 454, 458, 465, 478, 510, 512, 516, 517, 525, 528, 538, 539, 541, 547, 550, 573, 574, 580, 581, 583, 586, 603, 605, 612 * Linux binary build includes Python 2.1.3 with Large File Support enabled compiled against glibc-2.1.3 * Solaris binary build includes Python 2.1.3 with Large File Support enabled compiled against Solaris 8 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/2.6.0b2/CHANGES.txt * http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.6.0b2/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 -- Matt Kromer Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com/

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[ANN] TextIndexNG 1.05final released
by Andreas Jung 13 Oct '02

13 Oct '02

IMPORTANT! This message has been blind-carbon-copied to you. Do not reply-to-all or forward it without the author's permission. I am pleased to announce the release of TextIndexNG 1.05 FINAL TextIndexNG is a new pluggable index for the ZCatalog and is the most feature complete solution for fulltext inexing under Zope. TextIndexNG enhances the fulltext indexing capabilities of Zope by providing the following features: * support for document converters (HTML, PDF, WinWord, PowerPoint, Postscript). Custom converters can be easily added * stemmer support for 12 languages * optional support for right truncation * similarity search (soundex, metaphone support) (for English) * NEAR search * phrase search * pluggable query parsers (two parsers included) * stop words support * new test tab for interactive testing * faster than Zopes old TextIndex * full unicode support (new) * normalization support (new) * new similarity algorithm: double metaphone (new) * new TXNGSplitter * new vocabulary browser Changes: * added full wildcard support for CLLexicon and StandardLexicon * rewrote Stemmer module (now fully unicode compliant) * unittests code cleanup * query evaluation refactored * Parser API changed to return a parse tree instead of a Python expression * new parse tree evaluator added * PyQueryParser: now accepts a minus sign as prefix of a word to indicate NOT. Searching for "foo -bar" will be recognized as "foo AND NOT bar". In addition the syntax for "ANDNOT" has been changed to "AND NOT". * stopword handling through registry * added double metaphone algorithm for similarity search * Splitter handling changed: The new TXNGSplitter has been added. It supports both strings and unicode strings and supercedes the functionalities of all other existing splitters for Zope. TXNGSplitter is the only splitter that will be used by TextIndexNG. The "index numbers" options has been removed both from the splitter and the ZMI. In addition the splitter now accepts an optional set of characters that are recognized to be valid inside words. This allows you to index common words like "C++" or "python-22.lib" when you specify "+.-" as valid word characters. * Python C extensions compile now under Windows (Binary distribution will be available for Windows) * normalizer support added * full unicode support * the add form for TextIndexNG now uses the registries to obtain informations about registered complements instead of hardcoded values. * fixed problem with changed API of the Interface packages (backport from Zope 3 to Zope 2.6) * added vocabulary browser * lots of code cleanup * bug fixes... * add statistics tab to ZMI * fixed serious bug in TXNGSplitter due to missing encoding parameter * minor ZMI adjustments * using converters no longer raises an exception when a converter could not be found for the mime-type of a document * using document converters did not work due to a changed API call * added Finnish stemmer * improved CMF support: TextIndexNG is not able to index foreign file format stored as "Portal File" using the DocumentConverters. "Portal File" objects are indexed if the index name is 'SearchableText". This is a big improvement since you can now use to search through text objects and word, pdf etc. inside your CMF site with the "SearchableText" index. * added stopword files for ten languages * minor fixes inside the TXNGSplitter * changed default encodings from iso-8859-1 to iso-8859-15 Requirements: * Zope 2.5 or Zope CVS trunk checkout Documentation: * http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/TextIndexNG/wiki Download: * http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/TextIndexNG/ or * http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=50052

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[event] First meeting of TriZPUG (NC, USA)
by Tom Bryan 07 Oct '02

07 Oct '02

The Triangle Zope/Python User Group (TriZPUG) will hold its first meeting this Tuesday, October 8, at 6:15 p.m. near Raleigh/Durham, NC. We will be starting at VERITAS Software, who has kindly permitted us to use their meeting room (directions to VERITAS below). Geoff Davis will give a talk on Zope and Plone, starting promptly at 6:30. After the talk, we will all be going out to a local restaurant (still being selected on the trizpug mailing list). Everyone should bring a (no more than) one page description of current and past work related to Python and/or Zope and any suggestions for topics for future TriZPUG talks. We will be handing these around the table so that everyone can get to know each other's Python/Zope background and interests quickly. Hope to see you there! Title: An Introduction to Plone: Web Content Management Made Easy ================================================================= Plone is an open source toolkit for building web portals using Zope. Plone provides a fully functional and highly customizable portal out of the box and gives you built-in security, content storage, search capabilities, automated content generation, a skinnable user interface, content management workflow, RSS syndication, user discussions, and more. I will give an overview of Plone's capabilities and provide some pointers on where to learn more. If you are interested in learning more about Zope, Plone is a great place to begin. If you already know Zope, Plone is definitely something you should know about. Directions to VERITAS: ====================== VERITAS Software, 2530 Meridian Parkway, in Research Triangle Park. The Meridian Business Park is off of Highway 55, near its intersection with Interstate 40. >From I-40, take exit 278. At the bottom of the exit, turn LEFT onto Highway 55. Turn left at the next light onto Meridian Parkway. Travel approximately one-half mile, to building 2530 on the RIGHT. Turn RIGHT, and park in the back. VERITAS is on the first floor. Go to the Blue Ridge Conference Room, located past the elevators For more about TriZPUG: ======================= Web page http://dev.zope.org/Members/tbryan/TriZPUG/FrontPage Mailing list http://starship.python.net/mailman/listinfo/triangle-zpug

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Zope 3 Content Management Sprintathon
by Martijn Faassen 07 Oct '02

07 Oct '02

Hi there, Infrae is organizing a Zope 3 Sprintathon (a double length sprint) on content management this december 2-6. If you are interested in participating, more information can be found here: http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/InfraeSpri… Regards, Martijn

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QuickLinks 0.1.5
by Peter Bengtsson 06 Oct '02

06 Oct '02

QuickLinks 0.1.5 adds a new feature called Typical Selections so that if you loose your cookie for the quick links there are some typical ones there that you can use. I have implemented this feature because it was something I personally felt was needed. It's also very useful if you use several different Zope instances on different domains. Product page: http://www.zope.org/Members/peterbe/QuickLinks (includes screenshots) Testimonials: "I want to congratulate you for you quickLinks product, very useful product." - Gwendal Paugam "Peter, I'm never going to use the ZMI without Quicklinks again. Thanks!" - Jeff Kowalczyk Peter --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com) Version: 6.0.391 / Virus Database: 222 - Release Date: 2002-09-19

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RenderPM 0.3 released
by Dirk Datzert 05 Oct '02

05 Oct '02

Hi all, I just published RenderPM 0.3: DrawingTemplates and DrawingObjects give you the availability to build charts in Zope via the reportlab graphics toolkit from ReportLab. DrawingTemplates holds the Layout of your Charts. DrawingObjects combines the DrawingTemplates with the real data from multiple data sources. The data sources can be of the following kind: DTML Method, TinyTablePlus, ZSQL Method, Script (Python). The output format can be controlled by a format option URL?fmt=FMT, where FMT can be jpeg,gif,png,svg,pdf or tif. The product depends on the ReportLab Toolkit http://www.reportlab.com/toolkit/index.html . Go to the product-page http://www.zope.org/Members/Dirk.Datzert/RenderPM/index_html for more. Regards, Dirk

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[ANN] HTTPMounter 0.30 released
by Andreas Jung 05 Oct '02

05 Oct '02

HTTPMounter 0.30 is a small Zope product that allows to mount a remote HTTP server (or a subtree of a remote HTTP server) into a local Zope instance (similiar to LocalFS). Download it from http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/HTTPMounter/ Changes in 0.30: - added support for basic authentication and SSL Cheers, Andreas

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