November 2002 - Zope-Announce

CMFForum 1.0 Released
by Sidnei da Silva 20 Nov '02

20 Nov '02

CMF Forum is a simple implementation of a Forum based on CMF. It was inspired by ZDiscussions and enhanced with community feedback. This release fills a big gap were development stopped for 3 months (my fault) and a lot of bugfixes were sitting right there in the CVS begging for a release :) You can download the new release on the Collective project @ Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/collective or straight from this URL: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/collective/CMFForum-1.0.tgz?download Latest Changes: - Anonymous can post by default but cant add Attachments - Anonymous can set Author and Email fields - Logged in user gets 'username' as Author and email from preferences - Security cleanup. - You can replace default Discussions on CMF by a CMFForum, thanks to Helge Tesdal, who provided a custom funky Discussion Tool replacement. []'s -- Sidnei da Silva (dreamcatcher) <sidnei(a)x3ng.com.br> X3ng Web Technology <http://www.x3ng.com.br> GNU/Linux user 257852 Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Sid) 2.4.18 ppc Your mode of life will be changed to EBCDIC.

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Strip-o-Gram 1.2 Released!
by Chris Withers 19 Nov '02

19 Nov '02

Strip-o-Gram is an HTML Conversion Library implemented as a Python package that can convert HTML to Plain Text and strip specified tags and Javascript from HTML. See http://www.zope.org/Members/chrisw/StripOGram for more details. This release includes more documentation and allows the methods to be used from Zope's Script (Python)'s. cheers, Chris

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DBTab 1.0 released
by Shane Hathaway 19 Nov '02

19 Nov '02

The DBTab product allows you to mount databases in Zope using a simple configuration file. Version 1.0 is designed for Zope 2.6 and is in production use. It supercedes ExternalMount. Get it from here: http://hathaway.freezope.org/Software/DBTab Shane

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FSCacheManager
by Andy McKay 18 Nov '02

18 Nov '02

FSCacheManager is a new Cache Manager for Zope that works in conjuction with most Web servers, its specifically aimed at Apache and IIS. It cache's your objects on the file system so that your web server can serve out static content nice and fast without ever bothering your Zope. It's a good alternative caching system for sites with lots of static content. More information: http://www.zope.org/Members/andym/FSCacheManager -- Andy McKay www.agmweb.ca

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ZooDocument 1.3 released
by Philipp von Weitershausen 16 Nov '02

16 Nov '02

Hello, I am releasing ZooDocument 1.3. ZooDocument is a Zope product that integrates OpenOffice.org documents into ZPT based Zope sites. ZooDocument uses the pluggable XSLT processor architecture from XMLTransform. It can use any XSLT processor that is supported by XMLTransform. You may download XMLTransform at http://www.zope.org/Members/arielpartners/XMLTransform Among other things, this release finally solves the _v_program error bug many people reported. Those XSLT processors which aborted requiring a DTD file before work now as well. Thanks to everybody who reported those bugs to me. Please update if you're already using ZooDocument. If not, try it out :) You may download it at http://www.zope.org/Members/philikon/ZooDocument Cheers, Phil

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DZUG call for papers
by Christian Theune 15 Nov '02

15 Nov '02

DZUG Call for papers In march 2003 the German Zope usergroup (DZUG) will have it's second meeting and conference. Our intend is to bring together Zope users and developers. There will be two tracks featuring talks, workshops and discussions which will be interesting for both beginners and experts. Therefor we are looking for people that would like to give us the privilege to listen to him (or her) on giving a talk or workshop. Of course it's your choice of topic. We try to present a variety of topics from "ZPT for beginners", "Product development" up to "Zope 3 hacking" and maybe some case studies. If you are interested, please contact us until 2002/12/31 bringing up a topic and a short description of your talk or workshop at email(a)dzug.org. Your contact is Christian Theune. Also see http://www.dzug.org for details. (German only!) -- Christian Theune - ct(a)gocept.com gocept gmbh & co.kg - schalaunische strasse 6 - 06366 koethen/anhalt tel.+49 3641 511586 - fax.+49 3496 3099118 - mob. +49 179 7808366 reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,[chr(ord(x)^42) for x in 'zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b'])

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NeoBoard 1.1 alpha 2
by Wankyu Choi 12 Nov '02

12 Nov '02

Hi all, NeoBoard 1.1a2 has been released. I'll be away from keyboard for a while. I release 1.1a2 before I go into the operation room;-) Read the latest news on http://www.neoboard.net for more info. Most notable from this release is NeoBoard's i18n support. Read 'README.txt' in the i18n directory in the package for more info. What is NeoBoard? NeoBoard is a feature-rich threaded message board Zope product. The new version of NeoBoard comes with all the bells and whistles you can wish for a message board^^ Upgrading from 1.1a - neoboard_skins dir structure has changed: remove all NeoBoard skins from your skin paths and rerun the external method for installation - the external method (read the INSTALL.txt for more info) will skip types tool but add newly strucutred skins to the skin paths Changes - added (2002/11/12): i18n code cleaned up/master pot/korean po files added - Fixed bug (2002/11/08): search field 'email' changed to 'creator_email' - added (Collector #19 - 2002/11/08): ExternalFileNG validates filepath against filepath_bases.props file; NeoBoard validates archive_path using ExternalFileNG's checkFilePath method - Fixed bug (2002/11/08): empty text field error was not visible - Fixed bug (2002/11/08): archive_path/use_file_system/num_attachments check reworked - Fixed bug (Collector #15 -2002/11/08): category not changeable (edit script was missing the parameter) - added (Collector #14 - 2002/11/08): email_from_name/email_from_address properties added to NeoBoard and used when sending emails to users - changed (Collector #16 - 2002/11/08): dependencies on the submit button values done away with to support i18n - changed (2002/11/08): skins reworked to support i18n (Localizer/TranslationService dependencies) - changed (2002/11/07): neoboard_skins folder structure reworked: cmf/plone/zope distinction gone - Fixed bug (Collector #13 -2002/11/08): default values for some of the paramters in key methods changed to '' instead of None to prevent silly attribute errors - added (Collector #12 - 2002/11/07): total number of inline comments should be visible on the list - Fixed bug (Collector #11 - 2002/11/07): sorting on column headings are not enabled - Fixed bug (Collector #8 - 2002/11/07): square brackets might cause trouble with Python's rfc module - Fixed bug (Collector #9 - 2002/11/07): category select should not be visible when replying - Fixed bug (Collector #6 - 2002/11/07): attribute error (__init__) when using Zope's stock Folder instead of BTreeFolder2 - Fixed bug (Collector #5 - 2002/11/07): can't modify attachment title and description - Fixed bug (Collector #3 - 2002/11/07): neoboard article comment view looks ugly - Fixed bug (Collector #2 - 2002/11/07): parent articles not emailed All the best, Wankyu Choi --------------------------------------------------------------- To the dedicated staff at NeoQuest, language is not a problem to be dealt with, but an art waiting to be performed. --------------------------------------------------------------- Wankyou Choi CEO/President NeoQuest Communications, Inc. 3rd Floor, HMC Bldg., 730-14, Yoksam-dong, Kangnam-gu Seoul, Korea Tel: 82-2 - 501 - 7124 Fax: 82-2-501-7058 Corporate Home: http://www.neoqst.com Personal Home: http://www.neoboard.net e-mail: wankyu(a)neoqst.com ---------------------------------------------------------------

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November TriZPUG Meeting: Unit Testing in Python
by Tom Bryan 09 Nov '02

09 Nov '02

The Triangle Zope/Python User Group (TriZPUG) will hold its second meeting this Tuesday, November 12, at 6:00 p.m. near Raleigh/Durham, NC. We will be meeting at VERITAS Software, who has kindly permitted us to use their meeting room (directions to VERITAS below). Tom Bryan will give a talk on Unit Testing in Python, starting promptly at 6:15. Hope to see you there! Title: PyUnit and doctest: Unit Testing in Python ================================================= Want fewer bugs in your Python code? Then test it before the customer or even QA sees it! This talk will define unit testing, convince you that you should be doing it, explain Python frameworks that support testing during the development cycle, and show you how to use these frameworks. Learning to unit test your code with a standard framework will help you produce better code in less time. If you aren't testing your code during development, come learn how. If you test your code, but you don't use a framework, come learn the standard ones provided with Python. If you're already a Python unit test guru, come heckle the speaker! 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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ZooDocument 1.2 released
by Philipp von Weitershausen 08 Nov '02

08 Nov '02

Hello, I am releasing ZooDocument 1.2. This release finally solves the problems many people had with the product due to different versions of the 4Suite XSLT processor. ZooDocument now uses the pluggable XSLT processor architecture from XMLTransform, a very cool product written by Ariel Partners LLC. Thanks to Craeg K. Strong for his help in this matter. You may download XMLTransform at http://www.zope.org/Members/arielpartners/XMLTransform ZooDocument should now work with all XSLT processors supported by XMLTransform, i.e. * PyXML 0.66 and 4Suite 0.11.1 * PyXML 0.7.1 and 4Suite 0.12.a3 * libxml2 2.4.26 and libxslt 1.0.22 (Python bindings) * Pyana 0.6 * Sablotron 0.96 and Sab-Pyth 0.52 Please update if you're already using ZooDocument. If not, try it out :) You may download it at http://www.zope.org/Members/philikon/ZooDocument Cheers, Phil

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ReStructuredText Documents bugfix release 1.1
by Richard Jones 04 Nov '02

04 Nov '02

The ReStructuredText Document Product has been updated to use the latest docutils API. Get it at: http://www.zope.org/Members/richard/ZReST This is a Zope interface to the docutils project's ReStructuredText format. It offers: - through-the-web editing - handling of errors (with control over the reporting level) - FTP editing (with access to the config properties and errors) - extraction of the document title from the text itself - configuration of the stylesheet used - source view Richard

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