November 2007 - Zope-Announce

Hivurt new open source CMS 0.1.3pre-alfa released
by Mikhail Kashkin 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Hi everybody, Key Solutions (http://keysolutions.ru/) and Hivurt team (http:// hivurt.org/) proud to announce first public release of our Zope3- based content management system. Hivurt giving you strength of Zope 3 in easy to use environment. This is release aimed for developers and everybody who love new cool products, we want take first feedback from community and looking for new members. What you get: - Component architect - Easy switch between ZODB and Postgres data storage - Search and indexes - Easy editor UI (sorry we cut off some functionality, so there is still some dead links) - Easy frontend skin - L10n and i18n support, as in Zope 3 What's inside: - Pluggable Content Types and content types registry - Base conent types: - Folder - TextDocument - News Item - NewsFolder - Event - Event Folder - Site Folder - Form keeper, for quick and easy Feedback forms and quizes - Interface switcher, to easy switch interfaces provided by objects (we use it for quick skin switching) - Revolutionary SQLTools giving you freedom choose between ZODB and RDBMS, so you can easy integrate Hivurt in your company with existent infrastructure. Easy way to interact with existence data stored inside RDBMS as Zope objects (it is not only RDB Mapper) - Quick search and index - and many other features - Hivurt is fast, quick growing and supported. Requirements (You need to have before installing Hivurt) * Zope 3.3.x (3.4.x untested) * PostgreSQL 8.2 * Python 2.4.4 with psycopg2 and json libs * Tested on Mac OS X and Linux (Ubunty and ALTLiniux) Hivurt released under **ZPL**. You can download it: - Release 0.1.3 http://hivurt.org/downloads/ks.hivurtcms-0.1.3.tar.gz Include 10 minutes Install tutorial and demo site inside. Links: - Project home-page - http://hivurt.org/ - Blog - http://hivurt.wordpress.com/ (ok! we switch to something soon) - Bugs and translations - https://launchpad.net/hivurt/ P.S. Wow! We made it. P.P.S. We are looking for new clients feel free to contacts us. -- Mikhail Kashkin, skype:mkashkin, jabber:mkashkin@gmail.com Key Solutions (http://keysolutions.ru/) Offshore Zope3 development

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ANN: eGenix mxODBC and mxODBC Zope DA on AIX 5.3 (and later)
by eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCING eGenix.com mxODBC Database Interface eGenix.com mxODBC Zope Database Adapter for AIX 5.3 and later This announcement is also available on our web-site for online reading: http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-mxODBC-on-AIX53-POWER5-GA.html ________________________________________________________________________ eGenix mxODBC Distribution The eGenix mxODBC Distribution is a Python database interface add-on distribution for our eGenix mx Base Distribution. It comes with mxODBC, our universal ODBC database interface for Python. Customers who have purchased licenses for other platforms and wish to move their installation to AIX 5.3 (or later), can do so without having to buy a new license. The licenses will continue to work on the AIX platform. Users of mxODBC 2.0 will have to purchase new licenses from our online shop in order to upgrade to mxODBC 3.0. You can request 30-day evaluation licenses on the product page. Downloads --------- Please visit the eGenix mxODBC Distribution page for downloads, instructions on installation and documentation of the packages. http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBC/ Note that in order to use the eGenix mxODBC Distribution you need to install the eGenix mx Base Distribution first. ________________________________________________________________________ eGenix mxODBC Zope DA eGenix mxODBC Zope DA is our database interface for Zope and Plone. It is based on the mxODBC interface. Customers who have purchased licenses for other platforms and wish to move their installation to AIX 5.3 (or later), can do so without having to buy a new license. The licenses will continue to work on the AIX platform. You can request 30-day evaluation licenses on the product page. Downloads --------- Please visit the eGenix mxODBC Zope DA product page for downloads, instructions on installation and documentation of the packages. http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/ ________________________________________________________________________ More Information For more information on our products, licensing and download instructions, please write to sales(a)egenix.com. Enjoy, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Nov 19 2007) >>> 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,MacOSX for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611

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Grok 0.11 released!
by Martijn Faassen 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

Hi everybody, The Grok team is happy to announce the release of Grok 0.11! Grok is a web application framework built with Zope 3 technologies that aims to be easy to use. Grok 0.11 is a feature release of Grok, introducing important new features: * Layers and skinning support. It is now easy to place views in layers, and to define skins so that these layers can be browsed. * REST support. There is an easy way to create RESTful web services with Grok now. Create special REST protocols that support GET, POST, PUT and DELETE. See http://grok.zope.org/minitutorials/rest.html for more information. * pluggable template languages. Besides the built-in support for Zope Page Templates, Grok now allows you to plug in other template languages as well. See http://grok.zope.org/minitutorials/template-languages.html for instructions on how to integrate a template language into Grok. We are planning on releasing a Genshi plugin for Grok next week. * Improved permission and role support. See http://grok.zope.org/minitutorials/permissions.html for more information. If you were already using these in your existing Grok code you need to change your code a bit. See http://grok.zope.org/upgrade.html contains more information about these changes. One important change is rather hidden from view so bears a bit of explanation. Grok is based on Zope 3. Grok could always reuse Zope 3 libraries without problems. The other way around wasn't so nice however: Zope 3-based code could not use Grok-based code so easily, as Grok would not emit configuration actions. Grok 0.11 now does emit such configuration actions and this is a major step on the way towards backwards compatibility with Zope 3. If you have custom Grokkers in your code, you probably have to change them: please see http://grok.zope.org/upgrade.txt for information how to upgrade these. For the detailed changelog, see Grok's PyPI entry page: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/grok For upgrade notes, including how to change your application, see http://grok.zope.org/upgrade.html For installation instructions and much more on how to use Grok, see the Grok tutorial: http://grok.zope.org/tutorial.html If you enjoy Grok, please subscribe to the grok-dev mailing list http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/grok-dev and join us in the #grok channel on irc.freenode.net We hope to see you there!

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Zope 3.4.0 beta 2 Released!
by Stephan Richter 06 Nov '07

06 Nov '07

November 5, 2007 - The Zope 3 development team announces the Zope 3.4.0b2 release. This release is the second beta release for Zope 3.4.0. It was preceded by an early beta 1 release back in July. Zope 3.4 introduces support for binary large objects in the ZODB, and provides a new postprocessing hook for publishing results. Many of the packages also provide small feature improvements that are too numerous to list at this point. Packages and Eggs ----------------- Since the first Zope 3.4 alpha and beta releases, we have finished the transition to a completely egg-based system. This largely means that most Zope 3 developers do not use the classic Zope 3 tar ball release anymore. However, for your convenience, the Zope 3 developers will provide the classic Zope 3 tar ball releases for at least the 3.4 series and probably for 3.5 as well. So how are Zope 3 applications built using only eggs? The Known Good Set (KGS) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The known good set -- or in short KGS -- is a package index that derives from the official Python Package Index (PyPI) and thus contains all available packages in the Python world. But for a controlled set of packages, only certain versions that are known to work together are available. The list of controlled packages and their versions for Zope 3.4 can be found at the index page [1]_. The index can be used in several ways -- described here for `buildout`-based projects. The easiest method is to specify the index option in your ``buildout.cfg`` file:: [buildout] index = http://download.zope.org/zope3.4 ... You can also "nail" the versions by downloading the versions [2]_ and insert them as follows: [buildout] versions = versions ... [versions] zope.interface 3.4.0 ... ``zopeproject`` Project Builder ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Philipp von Weitershausen has developed a package called `zopeproject` to quickly setup the boilerplate for any Zope 3 based project. Ample documentation is provided at the `zopeproject` home page [3]_. `zopeproject` uses Paste or ZDaemon to create a working server. Here are the necessary commands to get a project started:: $ easy_install zopeproject $ zopeproject HelloWorld $ cd HelloWorld $ bin/helloworld-ctl foreground Demo Packages ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At this point, there is no demo package demonstrating a simple Zope 3 application setup. (I hope one gets developed before Zope 3.4.0 final.) However, the ``z3c.formdemo`` package can be used as a fairly minimal setup. To get started with it, do the following:: $ svn co svn://svn.zope.org/repos/main/z3c.formdemo/tags/1.5.1 formdemo $ cd formdemo $ python bootstrap.py $ ./bin/buildout -v $ ./bin/demo fg .. [1] http://download.zope.org/zope3.4/controlled-packages.cfg .. [2] http://download.zope.org/zope3.4/versions.cfg .. [3] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zopeproject What is Zope 3? --------------- Zope 3 is a web application server that continues to build on the heritage of Zope. It was rewritten from scratch based on the latest software design patterns and the experiences of Zope 2. The component architecture is the very core of Zope 3 that allows developers to create flexible and powerful web applications. Compatibility with Zope 2 -------------------------- Zope 3 is not upwards compatible with Zope 2. This means you cannot run Zope 2 applications in Zope 3. We continue to work on the transition from Zope 2 to Zope 3 by making Zope 2 use more and more of the Zope 3 infrastructure. This means that new code written in Zope 2 can benefit from Zope 3 technology. Also, with care, code can be written that works in both Zope 3 and Zope 2. This allows a Zope 2 application to slowly evolve towards Zope 3. Unchanged Zope 2 applications are never expected to work in Zope 3, however. Downloads --------- - Zope 3.4 Egg Index: http://download.zope.org/zope3.4 - Zope 3.4 Controlled Packages: http://download.zope.org/zope3.4/controlled-packages.cfg - Zope 3.4 Latest Versions: http://download.zope.org/zope3.4/versions.cfg - The classic Zope 3 source release can be downloaded from: 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 3.4 requires Python 2.4.4 to run. You must also have zlib installed on your system. Resources --------- - Zope 3 Development Web Site: http://wiki.zope.org/zope3 - Zope 3 Developers Mailing List: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev Retired: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-dev - Zope 3 Users Mailing List: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users - Bug tracker at launchpad: https://launchpad.net/zope3 - IRC Channel: #zope3-dev at irc.freenode.net Acknowledgments --------------- Much thanks to everyone who contributed to this release. Since all contributions are now spread over a multitude of packages, listing all contributors is not feasible anymore.

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