February 2003 - Zope-Announce

AdaptableStorage at PyCon and Four Product Updates
by Shane Hathaway 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

** AdaptableStorage and DBTab ** I will present a tutorial on AdaptableStorage at PyCon 2003 in March. The tutorial will explain how to use AdaptableStorage with and without Zope, focusing on mapping objects to relational databases. If you've been looking for a reason to join the conference, maybe this is it! http://www.python.org/pycon/ Also, several people have tried out AdaptableStorage in the past two of weeks and have provided good feedback as well as new code, so it's time for a new release. Special thanks to Christian Zagrodnick, Chris Withers, Data Lim, Elena Schulz, and Andreas Jung. Version 0.5 brought a lot of improvements to the filesystem mapping. It provides proper mapping of Python Scripts, ZSQL methods, DTML methods, and DTML Documents. It also stores new objects with automatic filename extensions, making it easier to use with filesystem-oriented tools. DBTab, now at version 1.1, got an update designed to make it faster and safer. It is recommended that you update both products at the same time. http://hathaway.freezope.org/Software/AdaptableStorage http://hathaway.freezope.org/Software/DBTab ** DCWorkflow ** A lot of work has gone into DCWorkflow by the community. It's time for a new official release. Version 0.5 adds help documentation contributed by John Morton and several bugfixes. http://hathaway.freezope.org/Software/DCWorkflow ** VerboseSecurity ** VerboseSecurity, a small product that reveals the reasons for denied access in Zope, helps solve the most puzzling of Zope access control misconfigurations. However, previous releases sometimes generated false error reports. This release goes back to simple exception propagation, making it simpler and more reliable. http://hathaway.freezope.org/Software/VerboseSecurity Shane

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CJKSplitter0.1 Released
by ???(panjunyong) 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

We, Zopechina(http://zopechina.com), glad to announce the first release of CJKSplitter. CJKSplitter is a ZCTextIndex Splitter for CJK (Chinese-Japenese-Korea) text. Now it supports UTF8 encoding only, but it should be easy to change for other encodings. It is just a preview version. Its performance maybe low and it may have bugs, but it does work with at least Chinese now. I will be very glad if someone can help me to improve it. Features: - Can Support Chinese/Japenese/Korea Languages. - Define the splitter characters in a configure file.(such as punctuations) Known Problems - can't search single character now About ZopeChina ZopeChina.com is a leading ZSP(Zope Service Provider) in China. We are also the supporter for CZUG.org (China Zope User Group). We are trying to make Zope/CMF/Plone works for the Chinese people. We wish all the Chinese Zope guys can be together and make zope works better for Chinese:) CJKSplitter can be found at: http://www.zope.org/Members/panjunyong/CJKSplitter

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PyCon registration NOW OPEN
by Guido van Rossum 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

Registration for PyCon is now open. Until February 28, you can register for the extremely low price of $150 for the entire event. Register online. Pay by US check or by credit card. The program committee has selected a fine set of presentations, tutorials and lightning talks, and will soon publish the program. If you sent in a proposal, you will already know whether your paper is accepted. Now is the time to make sure that your registration is in before the price goes up. Registration page: http://www.python.org/pycon/reg.html General PyCon info: http://www.python.org/pycon/ PyCon Wiki: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/PyCon See you all there! --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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ZChecker 0.1
by Andy McKay 04 Feb '03

04 Feb '03

ZChecker 0.1 is the first development release of ZChecker, its a little short on rules and documentation (i.e.: none) at the moment. However ZChecker automates checking of your ZODB objects for bugs and errors, in a similar manner to pychecker. It provides a flexible and easily extensible system (write your own checks). It will currently: o if you have "mxtidy":http://www.lemburg.com/files/python/mxTidy.html installed it will run your PageTemplates through it and tell you errors o any warnings or errors on your PageTemplates or Script (Python) objects o some (well two at the moment) DTML errors, for example using dtml-tree in a DTML Document o support for FS* objects from CMF This is a development release, documentation is to come. This is born from the Plone project where it is used in development. Some of the code (and most of the inspiration) is by Alan Runyan and Geoff Davis. ZChecker can be "found here":http://www.zope.org/Members/andym/ZChecker -- Andy McKay

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Zope
by Rob Page 04 Feb '03

04 Feb '03

My apologies for the late cross-post. Last week I intended to send this to zope-announce and inadvertently omitted it. --Rob =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Greetings from Zope Corporation! In response to several questions that have recently been asked, I've just posted a note to our employees, customers and community members at: - http://www.zope.com/News/ZopeRoadmap This note offers the notion of zope.org working groups. I'd like to ask that the discussion thereof be kept exclusively on the zope-web list. Regards, Rob -- -- Rob Page V: 540.361.1710 Zope Corporation F: 703.995.0412

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Zwiki 0.15 released
by Simon Michael 01 Feb '03

01 Feb '03

Summary Minor bugfixes and some changes to wikimail behaviour. Upgrade notes If you're doing mailin, don't forget to re-save your external method after installing this release. Changes Mail * don't store page names in recipient real name. This seems to create more confusion than it solves. mailin.py's checkrecipient option is now off by default, and the line in Mail.py:sendMailTo() which puts the page name in mailouts' reply-to is commented out. * don't recognize bare wiki names in mailin subjects - only page names enclosed in brackets. Explicit is better than implicit. More details on http://zwiki.org/WikiMailDiscussion, please comment there if you don't agree with these changes. * non-headed comments were sending error reports to mail_admin if configured Skins and content * default: some fixes for valid HTML (Pieter Biemond, IssueNo0399) * default, zwiki_orig: increase max quote size in header to 300 * zwiki_orig: get rid of the javascript double-click General * leave unknown link titles blank instead of showing "xxx zwiki bug" * a comment's subject (explicit from a field or inlined) is now used for the transaction log regardless of the use_heading checkbox. http://zwiki.org/releases/ZWiki-0.15.0.tgz http://zope.org/Members/simon/ZWiki/ZWiki-0.15.0.tgz More information: http://zwiki.org/KnownIssues , http://zwiki.org . Cheers, -Simon

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