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Zope 2.1.0 final has been released
by Brian Lloyd 02 Dec '99

02 Dec '99

Hi all, Digital Creations is happy to announce that Zope 2.1.0 final has been released! This release includes many bug fixes, performance and reliability improvements and a number of new features since 2.0.1, including the beginnings of internationalization support, FastCGI support and relevance ranking for ZCatalog. For more infomation on what's new in 2.1.0, see the file CHANGES.txt in the Zope distribution or on the Zope 2.1.0 download site: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.1.0/ Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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Zope Weekly News
by Mike Pelletier 01 Dec '99

01 Dec '99

G'day, Zope Weekly News is a digest of some of the useful and interesting events which have occurred on the various Zope mailing lists and the Zope.org site. It is published each Wednesday evening. Somewhat quiet this week, as much of the Zope community struggles to deal with turkey overload. New Products and Announcements * "gaaros" released a new product called FSSession. It allows you to store per-session information on the filesystem. http://www.zope.org/Members/gaaros/FSSession Updates * "anthony" updated his SQLSessions product. SQLSessions uses SQL databases to store information on a per-session basis. http://www.zope.org/Members/anthony/software/SQLSession/sqlsession_v_0_2_2_n ews * "MikeP" updated the ZDiscussions product. This release adds a preview function and makes customisation at the instance level much easier. http://www.zope.org/Members/MikeP/ZDiscussions Zope.org items * Paul Everitt has published a page with Zope logos and a ZIP file containing EPS versions. http://www.zope.org/Images/Logos.html * "TheJester" has posted a How-to on getting the SybaseDA working on FreeBSD, with patches. http://www.zope.org/Members/TheJester/SybaseDA * "hippy" has submitted a How-to explaining the use of the GenericUserFolder product to store authentication information in an SQL database. http://www.zope.org/Members/hippy/GUF_SQL_crypt * "Amos" wrote a How-to about using ZPublisher and ZServer to publish arbitrary Python modules. If you remember Bobo, this will be familiar. http://www.zope.org/Members/Amos/ZPublisher Notable Discussions * Paul Everitt put out a call for Zope Solution Providers to participate in a referral program. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014717.html * "FR Chalaoux" <chalaoux(a)cybercable.fr> announced the creation of Zope France to provide a place for Francophone Zope users to meet. Please send email for more information. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014701.html * Scott Robertson <sroberts(a)codeit.com> of CodeIt Computing has put out a call for full-time developers. CodeIt is located in southern California. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014653.html * Arjan Scherpenisse put out feelers for non-web based Zope management clients. Stephen Pitts offers a lead. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014651.html * The high volume of the Zope lists has become a topic again. Suggestions have been made to start a Zope newsgroup, but many believe that would only aggravate the problem by inviting more off-topic, spammy and flammable posts. Some have suggested a private (as in open but not part of USENET), gatewayed server. So far, no one has stepped up to the plate by producing one. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014608.html http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014611.html http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014613.html -- Mike Pelletier.

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Re: [Zope] Update on Roxen/Zope Integration
by Bill Anderson 01 Dec '99

01 Dec '99

Bill Anderson wrote: > > Well, after fighting with it for a while, I now have a much improved > HOWTO on how to > integrate Roxen and Zope. > > The Big change is in the rewrite rules. They are much easier (IMO) to > maintain. > > You can see it here: > > http://www.aope.org/Members/Bill/Documentation/RoxenZope errr .... Imust have been celebrating too hard ... make that http://www.zope.org/Members/Bill/Documentation/RoxenZope %^} -- "They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." -- Carl Sagan

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ANNOUCE : ZOPE-FRANCE is born
by FR Chalaoux 29 Nov '99

29 Nov '99

Hi All, I 'm happy to annonce the birth of Zope-France ( ZF ). Its objectif will be to gather together Francophones (philes) around this marvellous software. People interesting in the project should contact me. See you, FR. -- .--. |o_o | |:_/ | // \ \ Chalaoux François-Régis (| | ) mailto:chalaoux@cybercable.fr /'\_ _/`\ http://www.advl.org/ \___)=(___/

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[ANN] FSSession 0.1.0
by Pavlos Christoforou 28 Nov '99

28 Nov '99

FSSession 0.1.0 is available at: http://www.zope.org/Members/gaaros/FSSession This is a module that stores Session information on the filesystem similar to Anthony Baxter's SQLSession. Installation instructions and simple documentation are available at the above URL. Examples of usage: <dtml-call startSession> <dtml-call "FSSession.set('expensivemethod',expensivemethod())"> If expensivemethod returns a list you can then retrieve it in a future session by: <dtml-in "FSSession['expensivemethod']"> <dtml-var sequence-item> </dtml-in> Enjoy Pavlos

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Zope Weekly News
by Mike Pelletier 25 Nov '99

25 Nov '99

G'day, Zope Weekly News is a digest of some of the useful and interesting events which have occurred on the various Zope mailing lists and the Zope.org site. It is published each Wednesday evening. New Products and Announcements * "jwashin" released ZRTChat, an entirely ZClass real-time chat object. No java or javascript! http://www.zope.org/Members/jwashin/ZRTChat * The new Sybase Database Adapter has been released. It has been completely rewritten. http://www.zope.org/Products/DA/SybaseDA * "tseaver" submitted an internationalisation ZClass. It contains a set of translations of a document and serves the correct language to the user. http://www.zope.org/Members/tseaver/ZI18N * "Zen" has released GenericUserFolder, which seems to allow you to mix and match authentication methods to suit your needs. GenericUserFolder is very much beta, and not to be used on production sites. http://www.zope.org/Members/Zen/GenericUserFolder Updates * "anthony" released an update of his SQL Session product. SQL Session provides SQL database-based session objects, keyed to browser cookies. Unlike the previous update, this one does not break existing SQL Session objects. http://www.zope.org/Members/anthony/software/SQLSession * "rossl" has updated the LDAPAdapter product, which allows you to authenticate web users with an LDAP server. http://www.zope.org/Members/rossl/LDAPAdapter_0.7 * Itmar Shtull-Trauring has released v0.3 of ZCache. http://www.zope.org/Members/itamar/ZCache Zope.org items * "AlexR" posted a How-To about using ZCatalog's keyword index facility. A keyword index is something halfway between a text index and a field index-- it is a list of values which are treated atomically. http://www.zope.org/Members/AlexR/KeywordIndexes * Brian Lloyd has submitted a patch for Apache which allows you to use WebDAV with Zope through Apache. Normally Apache intercepts the HTTP OPTIONS request. With this patch, the request gets passed to Zope so it can offer WebDAV services. http://www.zope.org/Members/Brian/Misc/mod_cgi_webdav_patch.html * "Earthtone" wrote a mini-review of the Zope coverage in a new book, "The Quick Python Book". http://www.zope.org/Members/Earthtone/news-zope_chapter Notable Discussions * Sachin Shah wrote in to suggest that the Properties management view should include each of the property's type. Martijn Faassen agreed and suggested including the ability to change property types. Evan Simpson pulled a property-type-changer out of a hat! Oleg Broytmann suggests cut/copy/paste support. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014379.html * "Chas" asked for advice selecting an OS for his Zope server. He will be using it with an Oracle server on another machine, and so the operating system must be supported by Oracle. Suggestions so far: Linux and Sun Sparc and FreeBSD with Linux emulation. No one has verified whether FreeBSD, Chas's preference, would actually work. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014366.html * "Milt" wants to move a Zope server from a Windows machine to a Linux one. He solicited advice for accomplishing this. Solution: copy var/Data.fs from one machine to the other. It is platform-independent. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014359.html * Ross Boylan gives us a heads-up on a bug in Zope Products. It seems that a failure in Product registration (ie, in the Product's __init__.py file) can cause Zope to misreport an old error, leading to the occasional headache. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014340.html * Alexander Limi is understandably concerned about sending cleartext passwords over the Internet when authenticating Zope users and managers. Christopher Petrilli offers some solutions. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014339.html * Jason Jone kicked off a brisk discussion of FastCGI and Zope. The verdict: to get full functionality, you have to use a snapshot (prerelease) of version 2.2.3 of mod_fastcgi. Using prerelease code made some people uncomfortable. This will change when 2.2.3-final is released. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014254.html See also, doc/WEBSERVER.txt of the Zope CVS -- Mike Pelletier.

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ANNOUNCE: Zope SybaseDA v2.0.0b1 released
by Chris Petrilli 19 Nov '99

19 Nov '99

I'm proud to announce that we have finally taken the wraps off the total ground-up rewrite of the SybaseDA. This is a beta, but it's gone thru some testing already. You can find it on the Zope website at: http://www.zope.org/Products/DA/SybaseDA/ Please read the CHANGES.txt and understand all the differences, as it might break much of your code that depends on strangeness in the previous release. The CHANGES.txt is below: Zope Sybase DA Changes The DC Sybase DA provides access to Sybase Databases from Zope. Zope Sybase DA 2.00b1 Features Added The Zope Sybase DA provides the features of previous sybase database adapters and: - Fully multi-threaded - Support for Zope sub-transactions - Trailing spaces are stripped from strings on retrieval - The user interface for adding and editing database connections now uses separate fields for server, user, password, and database information. It is no longer necessary to use an arcane connection string. - Connections now have a "Transactional" option to control whether transactions are used. (Sybase consumes resources for transactions even when select statements are used, so pure-read requests should use non-transactional connections.) - Long integer fixed-decimal numbers are supported. Numeric columns with zero scale and precision greater than nine are retrieved as Python long integers. Notes on data type conversions: - Sybase Money types and numeric types for which scale is non-zero are retrieved as Python floats. This could lead to a loss of precision. - Image and text columns are truncated at 64K. Futures The following features are under consideration for the future: - Full support for Sybase text and image columns. Currently, text and image columns are truncated at 64K. - Drop-in Sybase stored procedures. - Perhaps provide dedicated data types for numeric (ie fixed decimal) and monetary data. -- | Christopher Petrilli Digital Creations | petrilli(a)digicool.com http://www.digicool.com

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Not Neccisarily Zope Weekly News, please read.
by Mike Pelletier 17 Nov '99

17 Nov '99

Hi. Not an hour ago I sent out an email titled "FYI: Zope Weekly News". The paragraph at the beginning should give a striking clue that it wasn't _THE_ Zope Weekly News, but merely a candidate for the position. If you are archiving or redistributing the Zope Weekly News, PLEASE, disregard my mailing from earlier today. The real Zope Weekly News will appear, as always, Wednesday evening. Thanks for your patience, Mike Pelletier

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Zope 2.1.0 beta 2 has been released
by Brian Lloyd 16 Nov '99

16 Nov '99

Hi all, Zope 2.1.0 beta 2 has been released. This release includes fixes for issues found in beta 1, an updated load_site.py script and Martijn Pieters' patches to implement try/except/else and try/finally constructs in DTML. Unless something major comes up, this will be the final beta before 2.1.0 final. You can download binary and source distribution of Zope 2.1.0 beta 2 from the Zope.org website: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.1.0b2/ Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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FYI: Zope Weekly News
by Amos Latteier 10 Nov '99

10 Nov '99

Hi, Zope 2.1 beta one was released this week. There will probably be a relatively short beta period before Zope 2.1 final comes out. Zope 2.1 focuses on boosting reliability and performance. In other news, Zope community members continue to crank out code, documentation, publicity, and all manner of excitement. * Zope 2.1.0 beta 1 was released. This release includes many bug fixes, performance and reliability improvements and a number of new features such as the beginnings of internationalization support and relevance ranking for ZCatalog. http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.1.0b1/ http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/1999-November/000064.html * Paul Everitt announced that there will be a Zope track at the upcoming Python conference in January. There are still two slots open if you're interesting in giving a Zope presentation. http://www.zope.org/Members/paul/ZopeTrack http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013631.html * Simon Michael announced ZWiki 0.2, a Wiki-style on-line collaborative tool. http://www.zope.org/Members/simon/ZWiki http://163.182.196.200/zwiki * Pavlos Christoforou released ZpdfDocument-0-0-1, a Zope product to create PDF output from structured text and HTML. Very cool! http://www.zope.org/Members/gaaros/ZpdfDocument http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013385.html * Edd Dumbill announced SiteSummary 1.2.1, which allows you to manage RSS channels within Zope. http://www.zope.org/Members/edmundd/SiteSummary * Zope guru Martijn Pieters posted a summary of his Zope talk at NLUUG, the Dutch UNIX Users Group. Interesting stuff. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013514.html * Evan Simpson enhanced his awesome Python Method product which allows you manage Python methods though the web. http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/PythonMethod http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013537.html * Paul Everitt posted an interesting summary of what it would take to get GNOME talking to Zope. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013580.html * Itamar Shtull-Trauring announced ZCache Product v0.1 which allows caching of Zope method calls. This looks like a very interesting start at addressing caching issues in Zope. http://www.zope.org/Members/itamar/ZCache http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013603.html * Linux.com is now running a Zope banner ad created by Michael Bernstein. Linux.com hosts banner ads for a number of Linux community projects. http://www.linux.com/banner_view.phtml http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013837.html * Alexandre Ratti posted an extensive How-To on creating and using HTML selection lists in Zope. http://www.zope.org/Members/AlexR/SelectionLists * Doug Hellmann released Chameleon 0.1.0, a Zope product which allows content to be themed. http://www.zope.org/Members/hellmann/Chameleon * Jon Udell mentioned Zope again on Byte.com, this time in a column on Linux and ODBC. http://www.byte.com/column/BYT19991104S0001 See you next week. -Amos -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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