Zope-Announce October 2005

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zope on rails project
by Tim Nash 30 Oct '05

30 Oct '05

Does zope really have to be hard to learn? We don't think so. We are developing an easy way for medical professionals to create zope web GUI at http://www.medicinebrain.com. The idea is to make zope at least as easy to use as ruby on rails. We are looking for ideas and criticism of the freely available zrails code. Currently available is a zexp that contains an html framework, an easy to modify form processor, some web widgets, and database scripts. There is also a separate application called "Nanabush" that processes html files into zpt pages. The application splits each form element off into a script widget. This produces a model-view-controller architecture that is completely edit-able via web browser. Next up will be a more extensive html framework and more html widgets. The plans for Nanabush include a way to develop zope database applications in openoffice and migrate them to zope. The combination of zope and Openoffice 2 will make a powerful workflow solution. Stop by and give us your feedback and critic the code! This is beta software, it is not accurate or secure. Do not use for actual systems. Suggestions for the best opensource license to use are also welcome. Thanks Tim

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[ANN] TextIndexNG 3.0.8 released
by Andreas Jung 29 Oct '05

29 Oct '05

I am pleased to announce the release of TextIndexNG V 3.0.8. TextIndexNG V 3 is a complete new implementation based on Zope 3 technologies and can be used both in Zope 2.8 or 2.7 (with Five) or in Zope 3. What's new? - multi-field indexing and query support - multi-lingual support - configurable converters (through ZCML) - new indexing API (allowing you to hook your custom content types with TextIndexNG through Zope 3 adapters). Changes since V 3.0.8: - reorganized extension modules. They are now stored under the hierarchy 'zopyx.txng3'. For this reason **you need to recompile and reinstall all extension modules**. - optimized storage.insertDocument() to play more friendly with the ZODB (smaller transaction sizes). - Fixed a weird Python 2.4 incompatibility in the parser code: subclassing the EnglishParser resultet in unpredictable and non-deterministic errors! Requirements: - Zope 2.8 or Zope 2.7 (+ Five) or Zope 3 (Zope 3 has nothing like catalogs yet) TextIndexNG V3 will *not* run with bare Zope 2.7 installations without Five (and this will not be changed in the future). Download: http://sf.net/projects/textindexng Project page: http://opensource.zopyx.biz/OpenSource/TextIndexNG3 For installation and documentation issues refer to doc/README.txt from the archive. It's basically the same procedure as with former versions except you *need* to recompile the extension modules. Windows binaries of the required extension modules are currently not available (any volunteers?). TextIndexNG V 3 is published under the ZPL. Andreas Jung ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - Andreas Jung ZOPYX Software Development and Consulting - - E-mail: info(a)zopyx.com Web: www.zopyx.com - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Issue Dealer 0.9.90 released
by Morten W. Petersen 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

Issue Dealer (http://issuedealer.com) is a issue management tool featuring a weblog publisher (client), weblog (server), WebDAV client, WYSIWYG editing of HTML and Images and more. Changes since the last announcement: 0.9.90: - Added ability to filter atom feeds with category 0.9.89: - Several fixes related to public access - Added ability to add multiple issues at once 0.9.88: - Refactored code - Added ID to issue details - Fixed bug where publishing issues via the publish button would raise an AttributeError If you're interested in trying a demo, sign up at the demo site (http://demos.issue-dealer.net). To see the Issue Dealer Weblog Server in action, have a look at The Blogologue (http://www.blogologue.com). :) Nidelven IT (http://www.nidelven-it.no) and others use the product to manage their knowledge and action items, it's a great tool to keep track issues in different departments for example. Try it! This release is sponsored by Nidelven IT, provider of Zope/Plone hosting services.

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Zope 2.8.4 released
by Andreas Jung 26 Oct '05

26 Oct '05

Hi all, on behalf of Zope Corporation and the Zope community I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.8.4. You can download Zope 2.8.2 from http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.8.4/ This version obsoletes Zope 2.8.2 and Zope 2.8.3 which shipped with an older Docutils version as expected. For security reasons you should update to Zope 2.8.4. In addition this release fixes a potential security problem when using Zope with Python 2.4 - although Python 2.4. is neither recommended nor supported. This release does *not mean* that Python 2.4 is from now on supported but there are already installation using Python 2.4 (mostly because modern Linux distributions ship with Python 2.4 and Zope usually uses the system-widePython installation). Some new features of Zope 2.8: - ZODB 3.4 with MVCC (multi version concurrency control) support. MVCC solves nearly every problem with ZODB read-conflict errors which is very important for high-traffic Zope sites. - Extension Classes were rewritten as Python new-style classes making all features of Python new-style classes available in Zope objects. This includes support for cyclic garbage collection. - Integration of Zope 3 technologies through Five (see http://codespeak.net/z3/five/) For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt files for the release: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.8.3/CHANGES.txt See also: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/Zope2.8/OverView Please bring all the bugs you have found to the Zope bugtracker: http://collector.zope.org/Zope":http://collector.zope.org/Zope For more information on the available Zope releases, guidance for selecting the right distribution and installation instructions, please see: http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition/InstallingZope.stx Please also keep in mind that Zope 2.8.4 requires Python 2.3.5. Zope 2.8.4 is not certified for any Python 2.4.x versions. So using Python 2.4 is neither recommended nor supported and any related questions or problems are likely to be ignored until 2.4 is an officially supported Python version for Zope. -- Andreas Jung (andreas at zopyx dot com)

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Five tutorial for Plone Developers now online
by Philipp von Weitershausen 23 Oct '05

23 Oct '05

Hello all, I'm happy to announce that a prose version of the Five for Plone Developers tutorial is now available through the Appetizers section of http://worldcookery.com. The text is based on a 90 minute tutorial I gave at this year's Plone Conference in Vienna and introduces Five and the Zope 3 concepts in five easy steps. Although Plone-focused, this tutorial can also serve as a good starter document for other Zope 2 developers who want to dive into Five and Zope 3. The actual code used in the examples is not very Plone-specific. In fact, throughout the five steps the example code is actually abstracted more and more according to Zope 3 paradigms, so that the result is a Zope 2 product designed to work with other systems than Plone. I would like to thank all the attendees of my talk at the Plone Conference, especially Martin Aspelli. Their positive feedback and Martin's nagging made me consider padding out the slides to a full tutorial. If you have any suggestions or other feedback regarding the tutorial, feel free to contact me. Philipp

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FunkLoad 1.2.0 released
by Stefane Fermigier 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

FunkLoad 1.2.0 is out. About FunkLoad: FunkLoad is a open source functional and load web tester, written in Python, whose main use cases are functional and regression testing of web projects, performance testing by loading the web application and monitoring your servers, load testing to expose bugs that do not surface in cursory testing, and stress testing to overwhelm the web application resources and test the application recoverability, and writing web agents by scripting any web repetitive task, like checking if a site is alive. Changes since 1.1.0: * Credential and Monitor services have been refactored they are now true unix daemon service, controllers are now in pure python (no more bash scripts). * Switching from distutils to setuptools using EasyInstall_, installing FunkLoad is now just a question of ``sudo easy_install funkload``. * Moving demo examples into the egg, just type ``fl-install-demo`` to extract the demo folder * Several bugs have been fixed. More info: http://funkload.nuxeo.org/ Grab it: http://funkload.nuxeo.org/funkload-1.2.0.tar.gz or http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/funkload Best regards, S. -- Stéfane Fermigier, Tel: +33 (0)6 63 04 12 77 (mobile). Nuxeo Collaborative Portal Server: http://www.nuxeo.com/cps Gestion de contenu web / portail collaboratif / groupware / open source!

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Zope 2.8.3 released
by Andreas Jung 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

Hi all, on behalf of Zope Corporation and the Zope community I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.8.3. You can download Zope 2.8.2 from http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.8.3/ This version obsoletes Zope 2.8.2 which shipped with an older Docutils version as expected. For security reasons you should update to Zope 2.8.3. Some new features of Zope 2.8: - ZODB 3.4 with MVCC (multi version concurrency control) support. MVCC solves nearly every problem with ZODB read-conflict errors which is very important for high-traffic Zope sites. - Extension Classes were rewritten as Python new-style classes making all features of Python new-style classes available in Zope objects. This includes support for cyclic garbage collection. - Integration of Zope 3 technologies through Five (see http://codespeak.net/z3/five/) For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt files for the release: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.8.3/CHANGES.txt See also: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/Zope2.8/OverView Please bring all the bugs you have found to the Zope bugtracker: http://collector.zope.org/Zope":http://collector.zope.org/Zope For more information on the available Zope releases, guidance for selecting the right distribution and installation instructions, please see: http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition/InstallingZope.stx Please also keep in mind that Zope 2.8.2 requires Python 2.3.5. Zope 2.8.2 is not certified for any Python 2.4.x versions. So using Python 2.4 is neither recommended nor supported and any related questions or problems are likely to be ignored until 2.4 is an officially supported Python version for Zope. -- Andreas Jung (andreas at zopyx dot com)

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ANN: eGenix mxODBC Zope Database Adapter 1.0.9
by M.-A. Lemburg 17 Oct '05

17 Oct '05

________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENT EGENIX.COM mxODBC Zope Database Adapter Version 1.0.9 Usable with Zope and the Plone CMS. Available for Zope 2.3 through 2.8 on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and FreeBSD ________________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION The eGenix mxODBC Zope Database Adapter allows you to easily connect your Zope or Plone installation to just about any database backend on the market today, giving you the reliability of the commercially supported eGenix product mxODBC and the flexibility of the ODBC standard as middle-tier architecture. The mxODBC Zope Database Adapter is highly portable, just like Zope itself and provides a high performance interface to all your ODBC data sources, using a single well-supported interface on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and FreeBSD. This makes it ideal for deployment in ZEO Clusters and Zope hosting environments where stability and high performance are a top priority, establishing an excellent basis and scalable solution for your Plone CMS. ________________________________________________________________________ NEWS The new version includes a number of enhancements which make the mxODBC Zope Database Adapter even more robust and reliable. The adapter includes a new, more careful connection pool management and options to adjust the result set size in a more flexible way. We are very pleased to also include a build for Mac OS X with this release. This will make connecting your Zope or Plone installation on Mac OS X to local or remote databases a breeze. Starting with this release, we will now ship binaries for both Unicode build variants of Zope: UCS2 and UCS4. Most recent Linux distributions come pre-built with the UCS4 variant, e.g. SuSE 9 and 10, RedHat 9. ________________________________________________________________________ UPGRADING If you have already bought mxODBC Zope DA 1.0.x licenses, you can use these license for the 1.0.9 version as well. There is no need to buy new licenses. The same is true for evaluation license users. ________________________________________________________________________ MORE INFORMATION For more information on the mxODBC Zope Database Adapter, licensing and download instructions, please visit our web-site: http://zope.egenix.com/ You can buy mxODBC Zope DA licenses online from the eGenix.com shop at: http://shop.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ Thank you, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Oct 17 2005) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! ::::

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Nidelven IT launches new hosting products
by Morten W. Petersen 17 Oct '05

17 Oct '05

Nidelven IT, long time supporter of Zope and Plone have launched 4 new hosting products, and are now taking the step up towards supporting customers with bigger requirements, as well as enabling the smallest to have a robust website of their own. The four packages we're launching are * Mini For the smallest, with Plone, ZWiki and Issue Dealer available as well as the standard Zope products * Managed Zope server I For webmasters/hosting providers/large websites * Managed Zope server II For webmasters/hosting providers/large websites * Managed Zope server III For webmasters/hosting providers/huge websites With these four new packages, we're supporting and enabling customers from the very smallest, to some of the largest and we're still able to provide customers with custom and larger solutions as well. All our hosting services are run on RAID, they are backed up regularly, and we give our customers great support, something we can prove by never having lost a customer due to poor service. To find out more, go to our Zope/Plone hosting page: http://www.nidelven-it.no/custom?path=plone/hjemmeside/hosting

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MailTemplates 1.1.0 Released!
by Chris Withers 15 Oct '05

15 Oct '05

These allow you to use the full power of the the python email package along with Zope's Page Template technology to easily build and send fully standards compliant emails. This release adds the ability to create attachments using string data. It also fixes a long list of bugs uncovered by public testing and has been tested for compatability with Zope 2.7, Zope 2.8, CMF 1.4 and CMF 1.5. For more information, please see: http://www.simplistix.co.uk/software/zope/mailtemplates cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk

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Zope-Announce October 2005