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Trac Frontend for Zope
by Andrew Milton 12 May '06

12 May '06

I've put together a Zope2 Frontend for Trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) so you can run Trac from inside Zope, using Zope for authentication, and mapping Zope users to trac permissions (using trac-admin or the web-admin plugin). This simply replaces the CGI or mod_python frontends, it's not an API interface to Trac. You can download it from; http://www.zope.org/Members/TheJester/ZopeTrac/ZopeTrac/ -- Andrew Milton akm(a)theinternet.com.au

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ZPUG Wed. May 10: pygame and Twisted+PyObjC+Flickr!
by Gary Poster 08 May '06

08 May '06

Please join us this Wednesday, May 10, 7:30-9:00 PM, for the next meeting of the Fredericksburg, VA Zope and Python User Group ("ZPUG"). Come for Pygame, Twisted, PyObjectiveC (i.e. Python for Macs), and food! Zac Bir will present on using Twisted with PyObjC to make a Flickr photo browser. Benji York will give an overview of Pygame (http://pygame.org) using as an example a small program that displays the results of unit test runs (from buildbot) as fish swimming (or not) in an aquarium. We've had a nice group for all the meetings. Please come and bring friends! General ZPUG information When: second Wednesday of every month, 7:30-9:00. Where: Zope Corporation offices. 513 Prince Edward Street; Fredericksburg, VA 22408 (tinyurl for map is http://tinyurl.com/duoab) Parking: Zope Corporation parking lot; entrance on Prince Edward Street. Topics: As desired (and offered) by participants, within the constraints of having to do with Python or Zope. Contact: Gary Poster (gary(a)zope.com)

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Zope 3.3.0 beta 1 released!
by Stephan Richter 08 May '06

08 May '06

The Zope 3 development team is proud to announce Zope 3.3.0 beta 1. 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":http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope3/3.3.0b1/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 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 that contributed. Enjoy! The Zope 3 Development Team

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[Warning] "ManagableIndex" "Zope2.8+" incompatibility
by Dieter Maurer 05 May '06

05 May '06

WARNING! We hit an incompatibility of "ManagableIndex" with "Zope 2.8+". For Python new style classes, "__len__" instance attributes are no longer taken into account in the implementation of the "len" builtin. "len" now only looks for "__len__" class attributes. From "Zope 2.8+" on, all persistent Zope objects are instances of new style classes. Especially, "ManagableIndex"es are new style classes. "ManagableIndex"'s "__len__" instance attribute is no longer used by "len". Some Zope base class defines the class method "__len__" to return 1. As a consequence, "len" applied to a "ManagableIndex" always returns 1 in Zope 2.8 and later (until "ManagableIndex 1.3.1"). The badly behaving "len" can seriously confuse "AdvancedQuery" (and other similar query frameworks) that uses "len(index)" to guide the implementation of sorting. In our observed case, "AdvancedQuery" sorting was 3 to 5 times slower and read 3 times more objects than necessary. The bug is fixed in "ManagableIndex 1.3.1". Download <http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope> -- Dieter

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Five release fest: 1.2.4, 1.3.5, 1.4c and 1.5b released!
by Philipp von Weitershausen 03 May '06

03 May '06

The Five team is happy to announce the release of two Five bugfix releases, 1.2.4 and 1.3.5, as well as two Five betas, 1.4c and 1.5b today. What is Five ------------ Five is a Zope 2 product that allows you to integrate Zope 3 technologies into Zope 2, today. Among others, it allows you to use Zope 3 interfaces, ZCML-based configuration, adapters, browser pages (including skins, layers, and resources), automated add and edit forms based on schemas, object events, as well as Zope 3-style i18n message catalogs. We've tried to keep the Five experience as close to Zope 3 as possible, so this means that what you learn while using Five should also be applicable to Zope 3, and viceversa. More information about Five can be found on our website, http://codespeak.net/z3/five/. About Five 1.4 and 1.5 ---------------------- Five 1.4 and 1.5 are feature releases. They are basically equivalent except that Five 1.4 works with Zope 2.9/3.2 (only) and 1.5 works with Zope 2.10/3.3 (only). Five 1.5 will be included in Zope 2.10. Most important features are: * Added viewlet and content provider support. A big thanks to Alec Mitchell and his helpers at the Archipelago sprint for making this possible. * Add zope.formlib support. Please see ``doc/formlib.txt`` for more information. A big thanks to Jan-Wijbrand Kolman for this. * Port zope.testbrowser to Zope 2. You can now use Products.Five.testbrowser.Browser in functional tests. Much thanks to Brian Sutherland. * Add python-packages-as-zope-products support which basically allows for using any python package as a zope product without it having to live in Products/. Much thanks to Rocky Burt for this. Zope 2.10 and Five 1.5 are also a big milestone in the convergence of Zope 2 and Zope 3, for it is no longer necessary to mark classes with five:traversable and five:defaultViewable to enable Zope 3 view lookup functionality. A big thanks goes to Lennart Regebro and Michael Kerrin for making this possible! Changes in Five 1.2.4, 1.3.5 and 1.4c (compared to 1.4b) -------------------------------------------------------- * Made sure that events are fired as expected in add and edit forms. * Made sure LocalizerLanguages class normalized language codes to xx-yy, instead of xx_YY or xx-YY. * Fixed a problem with the new traversal look-up order and the root object (OFS.Application.Application). About the Zope 3 Base --------------------- Five is part of the *Zope 3 Base* project, which aims to offer an approachable area for developers of Zope 3 related software. More about the Zope 3 base and its projects can be found on the project website, http://codespeak.net/z3/.

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Infrae announces the first public release of Document Library
by Martijn Faassen 03 May '06

03 May '06

Infrae announces the first public release of Document Library 3 may 2006 - Infrae has just released the first public version of Document Library (1.1b). Document Library is a document management application intended for the tracking of large amounts of documents in an organization. Document Library is open source. It is also open data: the contents of Document Library can be harvested using the standard OAI-PMH protocol and integrated with other applications. Integration with the Silva CMS using this technology is provided. What is the Document Library? Organizations deal with numerous documents, such as word processor documents and PDFs. These documents often reside on someone's computer and are not network accessible. Versions of documents are hard to track - the same document may be passed around using email in multiple versions over time. In large organizations it therefore becomes important to structure the flow of documents and present them in a common format. This is typically done using a document management system. Document Library is one such document management system. Information in the Document Library can be accessed using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), meaning that besides being open source, the Document Library is also a good example of an open data application. Because it is open data, the Document Library is easier to integrate with other applications, such as the Silva CMS or any other application capable of OAI-PMH harvesting. Features of the Document Library include: * Automatic conversion service: using OpenOffice, the Document Library can convert Word documents into PDFs and plain text, PDFs into plain text. The plain text version is important in that it allows for full-text indexing of document contents, and also makes documents more accessible to people with disabilities. * Publication workflow: documents only become available for harvesting and download after a review process. * Delegation of control: reviewers ("librarians") can be assigned to particular sections. * Dynamic access: authors have automatic access to all the documents that list them as an author. * Versions: multiple versions of the same document can coexist, one public and one under preparation. * Email reminder functionality: users receive emails of the progress of the document through the workflow. * OAI-PMH data provider: allows other systems to harvest document metadata using standard protocol. * Integration with Silva CMS (using OAI-PMH). * Fast upload and download integration with Apache using Tramline. * Easy overview screens for librarians. * Smart file upload user interface: files need to be uploaded only once even if rest of form needs to be amended. * Document Library is built using the powerful Zope 3 application server platform. Download The Document Library application can be downloaded from http://www.infrae.com/download/documentlibrary. Contact FMI contact Martijn Faassen, faassen at infrae com, +31 10 243 7051.

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Zwiki 0.53 released
by Simon Michael 02 May '06

02 May '06

Zwiki 0.53 is ready. Best, -Simon Summary ======= RST+DTML support, alternate heading layout for plone, some useful bugfixes. Upgrade notes ======= Changes ======= Installing ----------- Configuring ----------- * add an old-style compact parents list as an alternative in pageheader.pt, off by default (#1250) * CSS cleanups Browsing ----------- * fix action icons layout in plone 2.0 (#1253) * make top-right links small again in standard skin Editing ----------- * enable dtml interpretation in rst pagetype (Stefan Rank, Simon Michael) Page hierarchy ----------- Mail ----------- * fix unsubscribe, which was losing all subscribers' "all edits" setting (#1254) * fix an obscure case where cmf/plone subscriptions could be ignored * don't add NO_ADDRESS_FOR recipients, they break some MTAs (#1255) Issue tracking ----------- * make changeIssueProperties respect relevant permissions and edits_need_username, to protect from spambots (#1260) * be more robust about including full page name in issue creation mails (#1257) Translations ----------- General ----------- * easier make test-* rules * fix WWML test, which wasn't testing WWML at all * testsupport docs, use rst not stx in default fixture Urls: ==== - http://zwiki.org - start here - http://zwiki.org/FreeHosting - free experimental zwiki hosting - http://joyful.com - zwiki demos and other wikis - http://joyfulsystems.blogspot.com - blog

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[ANN] TextIndexNG 3.1.9 released
by Andreas Jung 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

I am pleased to announce the release of TextIndexNG V 3.1.9. TextIndexNG V 3 is a complete new implementation based on Zope 3 technologies and can be used both in Zope 2.8 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 in V 3.1.9: - added explicit check for the existence of the extension module so TextIndexNG3 will now fail at startup time with an exception instead of failing when creating new index instances - added UI support for valid word separators - added IObjectWrapper interface to core indexer engine to provide generic support for objects wrapped into some kind of wrapper. The purpose of the interface is to attach IObjectWrapper to wrapper classes using five:implements without having the need to modify exisiting code. - added support to deal better with indexing CMF content where the content object is wrapped inside a CMFCore.CatalogTool.IndexableObjectWrapper instance. TextIndexNG3/adapters/configure.zcml contains some commented configurations to attach a marker interface to IndexableObjectWrapper and in an addition an adapter to extract the wrapped object without having the need to add some CMF knowledge to the core indexing engine - added IExtensibleIndexableObjectWrapper for better integration with Plone (whose CatalogTool wraps Plone objects as ExtensibleIndexableObjectWrapper instances) - optimized internal datastructures (existing indexes should be cleared and reindexed) Requirements: - Zope 2.8+, Zope 3.2+ 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 Ltd. & Co KG - - E-mail: info(a)zopyx.com Web: www.zopyx.com, www.zopyx.de - -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Technical Preview of Blob support in ZODB
by Christian Theune 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

Hi everybody, the ZODB team is proud to announce a technical preview of a Blob implementation for ZODB. Blobs are used to efficiently storage large amounts of binary data within a database. This implementation uses real files on the file system in combination with any ZODB storage (FileStorage, ...) and native support for ZEO clusters. It is efficient in terms of memory and CPU usage. As this is a technical preview announcement, please notice that this code might crash your computer, delete your data, and destroy your homework. Now, have a look at http://www.zope.org/Members/ctheune/ZODB-blobs.tar.gz This is a more or less recent ZODB 3.6 based branch with the additional Blob support. Check out the documentation in http://svn.zope.org/ZODB/branches/blob-merge-branch/src/ZODB/Blobs/ to see how to use the blobs. Feedback is welcome on zodb-dev(a)zope.org. You should be able to use this ZODB with any recent Zope version (2.9 and 3 trunk). Cheers, Christian -- gocept gmbh & co. kg - forsterstraße 29 - 06112 halle/saale - germany www.gocept.com - ct(a)gocept.com - phone +49 345 122 9889 7 - fax +49 345 122 9889 1 - zope and plone consulting and development

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Registration for Joel Burton's "Plone Bootcamp" in Washington, DC, USA -- May 2006 is now open!!!
by Alex Clark 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Hi All, As many of you know the Plone Bootcamps offered by Joel Burton have become enormously popular and offer a great value to would be content managers, developers, and future plonistas alike. Past participants agree: http://plonebootcamps.com/about/raves For those who have never attended now is your chance! ZPUGDC (http://zpugdc.org) and Humanitas (http://www.humanitas.com) have teamed up again to offer the area's 2nd annual Plone Bootcamp. If you are interested in attending please go to http://plonebootcamps.com/courses/dc and sign up now! The class is scheduled for May 22 - 2006 at American University in Washington D.C. and will definitely fill up! Thank You, -- Alex Clark

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