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[ANNOUNCE] ZShellScripts v0.3
by Jerome Alet 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

Hi there, I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of ZShellScripts 0.3 Why would Zope only support Python Scripts ? Install ZShellScripts instead. ZShellScripts unifies Zope scripting facilities by providing a common script object type and different interpreter object types to which the script execution is delegated. ZShellScripts is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License of the Free Software Foundation. ZShellScripts currently feature interpreters for the following languages : - Python : scripts *should* work EXACTLY like native Python Scripts. - Lisp : allows Lisp scripting in Zope through William Annis' PyLisp. - Perl : allows Perl scripts to interact transparently with Zope through a mix of direct access and xml-rpc access. - PHP : allows PHP scripts to access to Zope's variables, and will ultimately function like the Perl interpreter described above. PHP scripts automatically give access to the same variables than those defined by the PHParser product, plus many more. - Unix : allows Unix (Bash only) shell scripts to access to Zope variables through the use of environment variables - Zope : currently still under developpment. Will allow people to create scripts in the Zope ZShell language, similar to the language defined by the popular ZShell external method. Adding support for a new language (e.g. Tcl) should now be a matter of minutes ! This early release features only preliminary support for PHP. Thanks to the incredibly great help from Wei He, you should reasonably expect a more complete version soon. Help needed : - comments, bug reports, etc... - Perl, PHP and Lisp gurus are very much welcome. ============================================================ For people who want to ask why I wrote this product : I don't need such a product. This was (and still is) fun to write, that's all. I hope this will encourage people to invent new ways to use Zope, and maybe help people to port existing scripts in non-python language to Zope. ============================================================ SECURITY : ========== For security conscious people (or especially for Florent ;-) : -------------------------------------------------------------- - ZShellScripts written in Python should be at least as secure as native Zope Python Scripts. Maybe more because the "Shell (Python)" objects used as Python interpreters can have restrictions too. - ZShellScripts written in Lisp : same as above. - ZShellScripts written in Shell, Perl or PHP languages : CARE SHOULD BE TAKEN WHEN USING THEM. They are executed at the operating system level as the user Zope is run as, so don't allow people to use "Shell (xxx)" objects if they don't have too. The interesting thing is that you can have people write ZShellScripts and different people with more rights to test them (untested but should work this way). Actually they can go back to Zope only through xml-rpc, and the current user and passwords are available as the username and password variables (i.e. $username and $password in Perl or PHP) but many xml-rpc libraries can't authenticate easily. - ZShellScripts written in the Zope ZShell language should be at least as safe as the standalone original ZShell external method, which implements security checkings everywhere. ============================================================ Installation : -------------- If you plan to use "Shell (Perl)" objects, then download and install Perl and the Perl Frontier module, get them from CPAN, or if you use a Debian GNU/Linux distribution : $ apt-get install perl libfrontier-rpc-perl If you plan to use "Shell (PHP)" objects, then download and install a standalone PHP4 interpreter, or if you use a Debian GNU/Linux distribution : $ apt-get install php4-cgi $ cd /usr/bin $ ln -s /usr/bin/php4 php The two lines above ensures that your php4 interpreter is available under the simpler 'php' name. NB : there's currently a compatibility problem with PHP3. If you plan to use "Shell (Lisp)" objects, then download and install William S. Annis' PyLisp from : http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/~annis/creations/ PyLisp used to be distributed from within ZShellScripts but this is not the case anymore because it now integrates the modification I did to it. Be sure you put the lisp.py file in a directory accessible from Zope (e.g. your python's site-packages directory) Finally, download and install the ZShellScript product from : http://www.librelogiciel.com/software Then, under Debian : $ cd /var/lib/zope/Products $ tar -zxf ~/ZShellScripts-x.xx.tar.gz restart Zope : $ /etc/init.d/zope stop $ /etc/init.d/zope start Installation instructions may be somewhat different on other systems. YMMV. Alternatively you can download the CVS version hosted on : http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/zshscripts To do so : $ cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/zshscripts login a password is asked, just press Enter $ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/zshscripts co ZShellScripts Enjoy ! Please email bugs or comments at: alet(a)librelogiciel.com

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Silva 0.8.6 released!
by Martijn Faassen 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

Hi there, We've just released Silva 0.8.6! Even though it's a small version number increase, there are quite a few changes. One of the biggest involves a complete move over of the code to the filesystem, using FileSystemSite. This means no more big .zexp with all the view code; this comes with the product code itself. Unfortunately we found out at the last moment that there is an issue with using this on Windows causing Silva 0.8.6 now to work properly there. We are working on a fix and hope to have it out soon. Get silva at the usual place: http://www.zope.org/Members/faassen/Silva be sure to read the upgrade notes. You also need new versions of Formulator and XMLWidgets. Regards, Martijn

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Formulator 1.3.0 released
by Martijn Faassen 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

Hi everybody, I've just released Formulator 1.3.0. New features include XML serialization, and integration with FileSystemSite. There are also a number of small bugfixes. Get Formulator here: http://www.zope.org/Members/faassen/Formulator Have fun! Martijn

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Three leading Swiss Zope companies establish the SwissZope Association
by Bernhard Buehlmann 21 Nov '02

21 Nov '02

On October 18th 2002, the three leading Swiss Zope companies, 4teamwork (4teamwork.ch), Projekt01 GmbH (projekt01.ch), and redCOR AG (redcor.ch) have founded the SwissZope, the Association of Swiss Zope Business Partners. The association is located in Berne, Switzerland. The web address is www.swisszope.org. SwissZope promotes Zope in Switzerland and provides a network of skilled Zope developers. SwissZope will organize periodic events, the SwissZope Apéros. Developers, users, decision makers, and IT Professionals are invited to discuss Zope topics with the SwissZope experts. At the Aperos, several Zope related presentations or tutorials will be held. The first event will be held on November 28th 2002, 18:00 at the "Institute of Information Systems (www.iwi.unibe.ch) of the University of Berne in Room 001. There are different types of SwissZope memberships available for companies, sponsors, and individuals. Contact address:: SwissZope Moserstrasse 24 CH-3014 Bern, Switzerland www.swisszope.org Director: Dr. Bernhard Bühlmann, b.buehlmann(a)4teamwork.ch Board Member: Roger Ineichen, r.ineichen(a)projekt01.ch Board Member: Robert Rottermann, robert(a)redcor.ch For further information feel free to contact SwissZope at "info(a)swisszope.org":mailto:info@swisszope.org Kind Regards - Dr. Bernhard Bühlmann - Director of SwissZope

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Zope Training Announcement
by Zope Corporation Training 20 Nov '02

20 Nov '02

Zope Training -- A Technical Introduction ------------------------------------------ Zope Corporation will hold the first public session of 2003 this January 27-30 at our headquarters in Fredericksburg, VA. This four day course will familiarize students with Zope software from introductory through advanced topics. We will demonstrate the flexibility and effectiveness of Zope as an Open Source web development and content management environment. We will also explore Zope architecture and provide hands-on exercises using Zope to develop and manage a robust web site. Attendees will have several opportunities to meet with Zope's engineering teams as well as share ideas over lunch with Jim Fulton (CTO) and Guido van Rossum (Director of PythonLabs). Course Objectives: After completing this course students will understand: - Zope's use of objects, methods, etc. - Zope's Management Interface. - Zope's server-side scripting language (DTML). - Page Templates. - Web site content creation and management. - Web site security through user privileges and roles. - Using Zope to integrate web sites with existing + relational databases. - Downloading/installing a Zope Product. - Introduction to CMF. The course is intended for those interested in using a full-featured open source environment to develop and manage robust corporate internet or intranet web sites. This includes web site designers, content creators, content managers and web developers. Participants should be familiar with HTML and basic web architecture (e.g., how a web server and web browser work together). Knowledge of object-oriented concepts and SQL is recommended. For more detailed information about the course, including pricing, travel and accommodations, please go to our website www.zope.com. Sincerely, Rob

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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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