September 2006 - Zope-Announce

Zwiki 0.54 released
by Simon Michael 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

Zwiki 0.54 has been released. This one comes you from the garden, in lovely county Wicklow. Thanks for all bug reports and input. An announcement from Joyful Systems: my current consulting gig is winding down; it's time for me to do something new, creative, financially rewarding. This could mean a greater focus on Zwiki. If you need Zwiki/Zope/Squeak/Unix consulting, or have any other thoughts on this, let me know! Best, -Simon Summary Miscellaneous view-related and general enhancements. Upgrade notes CMF/Plone users: the zwiki_standard and zwiki_plone skin layers have been replaced by a single zwiki layer. Re-install Zwiki in your CMF/Plone sites, using Plone's add/remove products or CMF's quickinstaller, to register the new skin layer. Also remove the zwiki_standard and zwiki_plone skin layers from your skins in portal_skins -> Properties. Changes Installing * cleaned up ZMI Add ZWiki and Add ZWiki Page forms * remove _getViewFor import that broke with CMF 2.0 * fix upgradeAll's batch option Browsing * /myvotes view shows your votes in this wiki * highlight your current vote for this page, if any Editing * support a max_identified_links property also, for cookie-identified users (for now) * edit history enhancements, a more useful diff browser and more powerful revert methods. Renames can now be reverted, reverting is more reliable, and appropriate mail notifications are sent. General * replace zwiki_standard and zwiki_plone with just skins/zwiki * Views code cleanup * simplify definition of view macros and make them refresh immediately in debug mode * more code docs * don't bother identifying the catalog in event log Urls: - http://zwiki.org - start here - http://zwiki.org/FreeHosting - free experimental zwiki hosting - http://joyful.com - zwiki demos and other zwikis - http://joyfulsystems.blogspot.com - blog

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Zope 3.3.0 released!
by Philipp von Weitershausen 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

On behalf of the Zope 3 development team I'm proud to announce the final Zope 3.3.0 release. There were no changes since the 3.3.0 release candidate. Zope 3 is the next major Zope release and has been written from scratch based on the latest software design patterns and the experiences of Zope 2. Cleanup of the Zope 3 packages has continued to ensure a flexible and scalable platform. We continued the work on making the transition from Zope 2 to Zope 3 by making Zope 2.10 use even more of the Zope 3 packages. But the transition is far from complete yet. **You can't run Zope 2 applications in Zope 3.** Downloads --------- http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope3 Installation instructions for both Windows and Un*x/Linux are now available in the top level README.txt file of the distribution. The binary installer is recommended for Windows. Zope 3.3 requires Python 2.4.1 to run, Python 2.4.3 is recommended. It does **NOT** work with Python 2.5 yet. You must also have zlib installed on your system. Most Important Changes Since Zope 3.2 ------------------------------------- - Provided a new component registry API that allows multiple component registries to be combined more flexibly than before. See 'zope.component.interfaces.IComponentRegistry' for more information. - Greatly simplified local-component registration. See 'zope.component.interfaces.IComponentRegistry' for more information. - Moved many packages out of zope.app to make them easier to use outside of Zope. - Change the session credentials plugin to make it configurable in which fields it looks for the credentials. - Added a new API for collating text. You can now adapt a locale to 'zope.i18n.interfaces.ILocales.ICollator'. You can then use that to sort strings, such as menu entries, in a locale-specific fashion. - A new 'zope.annotation.factory' helper function that makes it easier to create annotations. Also added a README in 'zope.annotation' which explains how to use it. - Added a more complete set of widgets for fields that use iterable sources. These widgets now mirror the set provided by vocabulary-based fields. - Added a cleaner and more robust API to testbrowser for setting file-upload data. - Deprecated several ZCML directives: * factory * vocabulary * content (as an alias to the class directive) * modulealias * renderer:renderer - The 'browser:layer' directive and the 'ILayer' interface has been deprecated. Registering layers has become obsolete, layers should be created as interfaces extending 'IBrowserRequest'. - The 'browser:skin' directive has been deprecated. Skins should be created as interfaces extending 'IBrowserRequest' and can be registered using a simple 'utility' directive. - The 'ISkin' interface has been renamed to 'IBrowserSkinType'. For a complete list of changes see the 'CHANGES.txt' file. Resources --------- - Zope 3 Development Web Site: http://dev.zope.org/Zope3 - Zope 3 Dev Mailing List: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-dev - Zope 3 Users Mailing List: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users - IRC Channel: #zope3-dev at irc.freenode.net Acknowledgments --------------- Thanks goes to everyone who contributed.

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[ANN] Zope 2.10.0c1 released
by Andreas Jung 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

Hi all, on behalf of Zope developer community I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.10.0c1 (=1st release candidate). You can download Zope 2.10.0c1 from: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.10.0c1/ Some new features of Zope 2.10: - ZPT implementation based on Zope 3 - experimental WSGI and Twisted integration - Zope 3.3, Five 1.5 integration - clock server - lots of minor improvements and fixes - replaced several Zope 2 modules with their sister implementation of Zope 3 For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt files for the release: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.10.0c1/CHANGES.txt Please bring all the bugs you have found to the Zope bugtracker: 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 Supported Python versions: Zope 2.10 requires Python 2.4.3 (Python 2.4.2 is still acceptable). Older Python versions are no longer supported. Using Python 2.5 is also *unsupported*. -- Andreas Jung

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ANN: eGenix mxODBC Zope Database Adapter 1.0.10 for Intel Mac OS X
by eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENT EGENIX.COM mxODBC Zope Database Adapter Version 1.0.10 Usable with Zope and the Plone CMS. Available for Zope 2.3 through 2.10 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 CMS. ________________________________________________________________________ NEWS Our mxODBC Zope DA product is now available and supported on both Intel and PPC Mac OS X versions. ________________________________________________________________________ UPGRADING If you have already bought mxODBC Zope DA 1.0.x licenses, you can use these license for the 1.0.10 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/ Enjoy, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Sep 20 2006) >>> 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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sx.translations 1.0 Released!
by Chris Withers 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

This package provides components for use with Zope 3 and Zope 2 + Five that implement both ITranslationDomain and ILanguageAvailability as well as supporting the recording of untranslated msgids. This means that, not only do the components support the interface require to provide messages to Zope 3's i18n framework, they can also be used to generate a list of available languages using code similar to the following: from zope.component import getUtility from zope.i18n.interfaces import ILanguageAvailability from zope.i18n.locales import locales, LoadLocaleError domain = 'myproject' def getLanguages(self): options = getUtility(ILanguageAvailability, domain).getAvailableLanguages() options.sort() result = [] for option in options: lang = option[0] try: locale = locales.getLocale(lang) except LoadLocaleError: # probably not a real locale continue result.append( {'code':lang, 'name':locale.displayNames.languages[lang], ) return result Sample ZCML for configuration could be: <configure xmlns="http://namespaces.zope.org/zope" xmlns:i18n="http://namespaces.simplistix.co.uk/translations">  <include package="sx.translations" file="meta.zcml" />  <i18n:registerTranslations locales="../locales" missing="../locales/myproj.pot" encoding="utf-8"/> </configure> For more information, please see: http://www.simplistix.co.uk/software/zope/sx.translations I'm happy to contribute this code to the Zope 3 core if people can tell me where and how to do so... cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk

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Zope 3.3.0 rc1 released!
by Philipp von Weitershausen 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

The Zope 3 development team is proud to announce Zope 3.3.0 rc1. Zope 3 is the next major Zope release and has been written from scratch based on the latest software design patterns and the experiences of Zope 2. Cleanup of the Zope 3 packages has continued to ensure a flexible and scalable platform. We continued the work on making the transition from Zope 2 to Zope 3 by making Zope 2.10 use even more of the Zope 3 packages. But we're not there yet. **You can't run Zope 2 applications in Zope 3.** Downloads --------- http://zope.org/Products/Zope3 Installation instructions for both Windows and Un*x/Linux are now available in the top level README.txt file of the distribution. The binary installer is recommended for Windows. Zope 3.3 requires Python 2.4.1 to run. You must also have zlib installed on your system. Most Important Changes Since Zope 3.2 ------------------------------------- - Provided a new component registry API that allows multiple component registries to be combined more flexibly than before. See 'zope.component.interfaces.IComponentRegistry' for more information. - Greatly simplified local-component registration. See 'zope.component.interfaces.IComponentRegistry' for more information. - Moved many packages out of zope.app to make them easier to use outside of Zope. - Change the session credentials plugin to make it configurable in which fields it looks for the credentials. - Added a new API for collating text. You can now adapt a locale to 'zope.i18n.interfaces.ILocales.ICollator'. You can then use that to sort strings, such as menu entries, in a locale-specific fashion. - A new 'zope.annotation.factory' helper function that makes it easier to create annotations. Also added a README in 'zope.annotation' which explains how to use it. - Added a more complete set of widgets for fields that use iterable sources. These widgets now mirror the set provided by vocabulary-based fields. - Added a cleaner and more robust API to testbrowser for setting file-upload data. - Deprecated several ZCML directives: * factory * vocabulary * content (as an alias to the class directive) * modulealias * renderer:renderer - The 'browser:layer' directive and the 'ILayer' interface has been deprecated. Registering layers has become obsolete, layers should be created as interfaces extending 'IBrowserRequest'. - The 'browser:skin' directive has been deprecated. Skins should be created as interfaces extending 'IBrowserRequest' and can be registered using a simple 'utility' directive. - The 'ISkin' interface has been renamed to 'IBrowserSkinType'. For a complete list of changes see the 'CHANGES.txt' file. Resources --------- - Zope 3 Development Web Site: http://dev.zope.org/Zope3 - Zope 3 Dev Mailing List: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-dev - Zope 3 Users Mailing List: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users - IRC Channel: #zope3-dev at irc.freenode.net Acknowledgments --------------- Thanks goes to everyone who contributed.

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planet.zope.org
by Martijn Faassen 05 Sep '06

05 Sep '06

Hi everybody, Try: http://planet.zope.org This brings you to the Zope-related blog aggregator (Planet Zope) brought to you by Michael Haubenwallner. You may already know it from planetzope.org, but now we're finally having it under the zope.org umbrella as well. In it you can see any blog entries from Zope bloggers. This is part of the Zope Foundation project to improve zope.org. If you want your blog to be included in planet.zope.org feed, please contact Michael Haubenwallner (michael at d2m.at). This is a small step forwards for zope.org, but many more steps are under preparation. If you're interested in helping us out to make zope.org a great site that attracts people to Zope, please join the zope-web mailing list and help us out! http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-web Regards, Martijn (zope.org committee, Zope Foundation)

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z3wingdbg 0.2.0: Wing IDE debugger integration for Zope3
by Martijn Pieters 01 Sep '06

01 Sep '06

I'm pleased to announce the second alpha release of z3wingdbg, a Zope3 package integrating debug support for the Wing IDE into Zope3. z3wingdbg sets you up with a seperate single-threaded HTTP server through which all requests are under the control of the Wing Debugger. This second release provides the almost the same functionality as it's Zope2 equivalent, including accepting connections (have the IDE initialize the connection) has not been implemented. Future releases will include a more user-friendly interface to configuring the package and other server types, such as FTP and SSH. Project homepage (including downloads) http://www.zopatista.com/projects/z3wingdbg Development http://trac.zopatista.com/zopatista/z3wingdbg Subversion Repository https://svn.zopatista.com/zopatista/z3wingdbg http://trac.zopatista.com/zopatista/browser/z3wingdbg Reporting bugs, feature requests http://trac.zopatista.com/zopatista/ Martijn Pieters

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