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[ANN] TextIndexNG 2.2.0 beta 1 released
by Andreas Jung 08 Jan '05

08 Jan '05

I am pleased to announce the release of TextIndexNG 2.2.0 beta 1 Changes in 2.2.0b1: - added support for thesauri (see TextIndexNG release notes for details) TextIndexNG homepage: http://www.zopyx.com/OpenSource/TextIndexNG Download http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/TextIndexNG

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[ANN] Zope 2.7.4 RC 2 released
by Andreas Jung 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

Dear Zope Community, on behalf of Zope Corporation and all Zope 2 developers and contributors I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.7.4 RC2. This release is a maintenance release and fixes a lot of bugs (too much to mention them all here). Zope 2.7.4 RC 2 can be downloaded from http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.4rc2 The release notes can be found at http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.4rc2/CHANGES.txt For informations on using Python 2.4 with Zope 2.7: see doc/INSTALL.txt Andreas Jung

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[ANN] CMFDeployment Beta 4
by Kapil Thangavelu 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

CMFDeployment - Beta 4 ObjectRealms is pleased to announce the renewed development and production usage of cmfdeployment. About -------- CMFDeployment Allows for allows for static deployment of a CMF site to multiple target systems akin to the deployment features of advanced commerical CMS systems like interwoven or vignette. It shifts the burden of content delivery from the cms (plone/cmf) to systems optimized for such. New in this Release --------------------------- - compatibility w/ CMF1.4 and Plone2 - support of multi-resource content, for example Archetypes content with schema Images or Files. - a unit test suite based on ZopeTestCase. More Information ----------------------- A complete list of features, downloads, and project resources can be found here http://projects.objectrealms.net/projects/cmfdeployment Thanks --------- many thanks to tahara yusei and calvin hendryx-parker who contributed to this release. CMFDeployment is developed and supported by ObjectRealms. http://www.objectrealms.net - Vision Implemented

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[ANN] Simplates 0.2.0 released
by Chad Whitacre 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

Dear All, Simplates 0.2.0 is now available at http://simplates.zetaweb.com/. Simplates ("simple templates") is a Python package written for Zope. Think of it as a simpler alternative to DTML for cases where ZPT can't (and shouldn't) be used, that is, for non-XML content. Simplates are great for dynamic plain-text formatting. Try them for: * CSS * JavaScript * SQL * plain-text email Thank you. yours, Chad Whitacre

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SfleX - Software Flexibility Prototype in Zope
by gautam.shroff＠tcs.com 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

So much of software development/maintenance in IT departments is in response to small changes in functionality - new fields, workflows, etc. Yes, there are a lot of development tools that help automate this - but they are just that - development tools; analysts can't use them. At TCS we've been working on automated code generation for a decade. Recently we have started to focus on interpretation, i.e. instead of generating from specs, interpret. (A lot of interest in this these days, esp XML etc.) Increasing computing power makes this possible - in my opinon. But we would also like the specs to be configured in an application that is accessible by analysts (not only programmers). We have created a prototype as a Zope application and released it for demo and download(under GPL), and are seeking FEEDBACK AND COMMENTS. See http://sflex.ilab-tcs.com We would also like to welcome anyone interested in contributing to the development of the Zope version - making it a product, using it, etc. See http://zope.org/Members/shroff (should get published soon) Thanks, Gautam Shroff Technology Innovation Lab Tata Consultancy Services Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you

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[ANN] Zwiki 0.37 released
by Simon Michael 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

Summary: Improved rating form, a file -> wiki page import tool, chinese & hungarian translation updates, bugfixes. Last release was 0.37rc1 on 11/30; there was no december release. Burned out! Traffic on the zwiki list, UserDiscussion page and #zwiki channel have been steady. There's now also a related blog at http://joyfulsystems.blogspot.com . Happy new year, everyone. -Simon http://zwiki.org http://zwiki.org/ReleaseNotes Zwiki 0.37.0 2005/01/02 Summary Improved rating form, a file -> wiki page import tool, chinese & hungarian translation updates, bug fixes. Last release was 0.37rc1 on 11/30; there was no december release. Changes Editing * avoid creating both pages when you rename during page creation drop the leaveplaceholder and updatebacklinks arguments from create(). Changing the page name in the create form now always updatesbacklinks, never leaves a placeholder. Rating * rating could fail when there was only one vote * make rating's average a little more accurate Mail * workaround for clumsy mailhost lookup (#938) Issue tracking * don't match xml/html character entities as hash number issue links (Stefan Rank) General - i18n * hungarian translation updates (Jaroli József) * po file typo (T.C. Chou) General - skins * use canonicaIdFrom to help link user names in recent changes * change RecentChanges ZCatalog query-style to avoid deprecation warning (Stefan Rank) General * add tools folder and a basic import-files-to-wiki utility Zwiki 0.37.0rc1 2004/11/30 Changes Page hierarchy * make updateWikiOutline redirect to the updated contents view, and provide an easier alias: updatecontents * don't log a traceback when deleting a page with out-of-date outline cache Rating * new compact rating form at top right. Unrated pages now have rating 1 by default. Mail * mailin: don't log incoming message text or traceback for missing text part * make mailout logging less verbose * fix a bug preventing subscribe link from appearing when mailhost's id is not 'MailHost' General - i18n * zh-TW and zh-CN translation updates (T.C. Chou) * add missing metadata to finnish po files General - skins * close a cross-site scripting vulnerability in standard error message (SSA-20041122-12, #925, ChrisW) * Hide web only elements when printing from plone (Michael Twomey) When printing from plone certain elements are visible on the printed page, especially the access links. With the default plone print style (plonePrint.css) all links get expanded to full URLs which results in a lot of useless junk at the top of the screen. This patch adds a few plone related CSS classes to certain sections of the page which in turn ensures they aren't visible when printed. This has no effect on browsers which aren't aware of the print style sheet. The access keys still work fine in FireFox 1.0. * fix html title in plone sites * rearrange/reword wiki actions in cmf/plone, drop filter issues action * tweak page management help in cmf/plone * display site_header in standard skin header, if present

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[ANN] Zope 2.7.4 RC1 released
by Andreas Jung 23 Dec '04

23 Dec '04

Dear Zope Community, on behalf of Zope Corporation and all Zope 2 developers and contributors I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.7.4 RC1. This release is a maintenance release and fixes a lot of bugs (too much to mention them all here). Zope 2.7.4 RC 1 can be downloaded from http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.4rc1 The release notes can be found at http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.4rc1/CHANGES.txt For informations on using Python 2.4 with Zope 2.7: see doc/INSTALL.txt Andreas Jung

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Silva 1.1.1 released
by Martijn Faassen 21 Dec '04

21 Dec '04

Silva is an easy to use, open source, enterprise-class content management system with a focus on structured content and XML. It comes with a fully integrated browser-based WYWIWYG editor (Kupu), and has extensive XML support, such as XSLT-based rendering of content. Silva separates public website layout from its user interface, so that it is easy to completely customize Silva to use the layout templates for your website. Silva 1.1 includes the following new features: * XSLT support for rendering Silva objects. This adds more flexibility to the way Silva objects are presented, and when used also provides a nice performance boost. XSLT support can optionally be enabled on a per-object basis. XSLT support needs libxml2/libxslt, but Silva also continues to work if you do not have these installed. * A new XML export/system that can also export and import asset data in a zip file. * abbr and acronym support for both forms editor and Kupu. * New parser for SilvaDocument forms-based editor, using a HTML subset instead of the old-style method using special characters. This should increase the performance of the parser and makes it easier to use. Silva 1.1.1 is a bugfix release, and includes: * new feature: an XSLT renderer that can render documents without the main title at the top. This can be useful in layout templates that already include this title. * Silva 1.1.1 is Zope 2.7.3 compatible. * A number of bugfixes. Silva 1.1.1 works with Silva News 1.0 and SilvaExternalSources 0.9.1, both to be found on the Infrae website. Download Silva here: http://www.infrae.com/download/Silva/ The easiest way is to download the Silva-1.1.1-all.tgz file, and unpack this in your products directory. See the INSTALL.txt included in the Silva product for more information. For Silva extensions such as SilvaNews and SilvaExternalSources, lease see the overview here: http://www.infrae.com/download/ For more information about Silva, please see: http://www.infrae.com/products/silva

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zasync 1.0 released
by Gary Poster 17 Dec '04

17 Dec '04

I am happy to announce the 1.0 release of zasync, a Zope 2 product that enables tasks to be done asynchronously via a Twisted ZEO Client. http://www.zope.org/Members/poster/zasync What is it? zasync is a Zope 2 product that enables tasks to be done asynchronously. If your application needs to allow users to request that a long-running job be performed, but the user (and the Zope thread) shouldn't be tied up waiting for the job to complete, zasync is one possible solution. When the result of the job is ready, zasync supports both push and pull: the response can trigger TALES expressions run in the security context of the user who made the call, or the call manager can be polled to see if the response is ready. What are some examples of a long-running job? - you need to poll a database that may take a very long time to respond - you need the app to download something off the internet, maybe big, maybe just with a big timeout - you need to do a long-running transaction within Zope itself (SUPPORTED, BUT HERE BE DRAGONS, i.e. ConflictError fun, particularly pre-Zope 2.8) - you want the user to be associated with a long-running socket (e.g., an IM server component or a client) that should not be turned on and off within a single transaction How does it work? zasync is comprised of two sides: the side that lives in Zope and allows users to make asynchronous calls and poll for results; and the worker that actually does the jobs. The worker is intended to be pluggable, maybe eventually supporting workers that live within the main Zope process so that developer boxes and low-load servers can use a worker simply. However, zasync 1.0 ships with a single worker: a ZEO client driven by the Twisted reactor. A Twisted ZEO client? Yup. The approach has some nice scalability advantages (it can be run on a different box, for instance). It also comes with a few plugins, a couple for LDAP calls and one for calling back into Zope to do tasks. A plugin simply is a registered callable that can return a result (unlikely) or a deferred (much more likely). The zasync client includes meaty logging. The ZEO client must be configured using a standard ZConfig schema, and started using a (very bare bones at the moment) shell script. Disadvantages include the fact that you have another process to keep track of, and that you have to keep up with an additional configuration. Are there any docs? Yup. Of course, not as many or of as high a quality as I'd like. There's a README and a doctest for the call manager, as well as some docs and tests for some of the components. Is it easy to set up? Uh. If you know zope.conf then it shouldn't be too hard to modify the files you need to. I tried to include reasonable directions. Does it work on Windows? I imagine you could make it work on Windows: I wanted to make sure it was a possibility. I haven't yet. You might just need to get the start script right... Does it work on UNIX-ish stuff? Yup, it should work on a UNIX-ish system that runs the current stable Zope. What does the future hold? Wouldn't we all like to know. This product is in active use at the moment, so development, or at least bug fixes, are likely. I hope to port this to Zope 3, refactoring as I go to take advantages of lessons learned and maybe including the simpler non-ZEO worker also so that it is easier for developers and simpler deployments to get started. Is this in a public version control repository? Yup. http://cvs.zope.org/Packages/zasync/ . Shoulda been in Products: oh well. :-) It has a package in there, at least... Thanks to Zope Corporation for open sourcing this product! Gary

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[ANN] Zope 2.7.4b2 released
by Andreas Jung 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

Dear Zope Community, on behalf of Zope Corporation and all Zope 2 developers and contributors I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.7.4 b2. This release is a maintenance release and fixes a lot of bugs (too much to mention them all here). Zope 2.7.4b2 can be downloaded from http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.4b2 The release notes can be found at http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.4b2/CHANGES.txt Andreas Jung

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