January 2000 - Zope-Dev

mod_pcgi2 version 0.3.0.
by Oleg Broytmann 10 Jan '00

10 Jan '00

Hi! http://www.zope.org/Members/phd/mod_pcgi2 Implemented new command PCGI_SetEnv to set environment variable specific to this location. I use this to pass SiteRootPATH env var to SiteAccess object. This completes virtual hosting support. I converted my sites to use the module instead of RewriteRule and Zope.cgi: http://sun.med.ru/pcgi/ http://sun.med.ru/pcgi/Random http://sun.med.ru/~zphd/ - this served by root folder "phd02"; SiteAccess is used for virtual hosting. I found and traced minor problem in the using of buffer "t". I fixed the problem by extending it 1 char more - made it 11 chars instead of 10 (HDRLEN) - and zero-fill it before using. I found yet another problem and will fix it in 0.4.0. It seems I copied too much from Andrew's mod_pcgi :) I need to change pcgiStartProc back to double-fork. With current code, Apache remembers PID of started process and kills it on stop or restart. Oleg. ---- Oleg Broytmann Foundation for Effective Policies phd(a)phd.russ.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

1 0

Notes on a Zope IDE
by Eron Lloyd 10 Jan '00

10 Jan '00

Greetings all; I'm a (fairly) new Zope developer, and I've been following the discussion of the ZIDE lately. A few months ago I scoured the mail-list archive and put together some notes pertaining to this effort. They can be read at my section on zope.org, at www.zope.org/Members/Earthtone/ZGUI I'm a long-time Homesite user, and see the potential for Zope's future with the integration of nice editing/management tool. Particularily, I'd like to see a nice editor with good DTML/Python support, that can access Zope through WebDAV or XML-RPC. I've lately been looking at wxPython and Java for this. Soon I might begin a prototype, and try to solicit support from the community to aide in it's development. Any ideas on this would be appreciated. I'm working on a fairly complex Zope based project, and having a good IDE would help development/maintenance enormously. Thanks in advance, Eron Lloyd

4 3

Re: [Zope-dev] ZFormulator review...
by Tres Seaver 10 Jan '00

10 Jan '00

"Stuart 'Zen' Bishop" <zen(a)cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote > > On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Chris McDonough wrote: > > > - Martijn includes a .zexp file for demo purposes in the product which > > gets placed into the import directory upon untarring the product file. > > I think this is OK, but I wonder if anybody else has thoughts on the > > implications of placing stuff into directories other than the intended > > product directory within a product tarball? For instance, I would > > consider it bad form for a Product to expand something into the > > lib/python/OFS directory. Others might disagree. What about products > > just going right ahead and creating instances of their classes within > > the ZODB upon installation? Or products automatically importing demo > > .zexp (or equivalent) files into the App object? Bad form or no? > > Apart from /Products and /Extensions (for external methods) and > /usr/lib/Products (for python code), you will occasionally need a .zexp > file to complete installation. For example, a product that is a mixture > of ZClasses and External methods would probably be packed up in a > tarball that puts the external methods in the correct place, and places > a .zexp file in your import directory to create the ZClasses. Hmm, I think the "file location" mechanism for ExternalMethods was changed recently to allow product developers to put external methods in an 'Extensions' subdirectory under their product (this was always supposed to work, according to the docs, but didn't; now, it does). Could we use the same logic for imports, such that typing 'FooProduct.demo.zexp' would check an 'import' directory under 'FooProduct'? -- ========================================================= Tres Seaver tseaver(a)palladion.com 713-523-6582 Palladion Software http://www.palladion.com

1 0

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope/CORBA integration proposal
by Josh Zeidner 09 Jan '00

09 Jan '00

Tres, A Zope/CORBA bridge would be extremely useful... In my view Zope has its major utility as a small-scale dynamic content server. A CORBA bridge would allow Zope to integrate with : 1) Server side and Client side Java, the largest growth area in the server-side dev market. 2) High-End distributed systems( mainly in the financial industry ). Keep me posted on its progress! -Josh Zeidner >From: Tres Seaver <tseaver(a)palladion.com> >To: zope-dev(a)zope.org >Subject: [Zope-dev] Zope/CORBA integration proposal >Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 13:49:19 -0600 > >Spurred by the recent questions about CORBA integration, I have revisited >my notes on integrating Zope with external CORBA servers, and put a version >up for your review and comments: > > >http://www.zope.org/Members/tseaver/CosNaming/Requirements/index_html > >Let me know what you think! > >Tres. > > >_______________________________________________ >Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev(a)zope.org >http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev >** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** >(Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce >http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ) > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

1 0

Zope/CORBA integration proposal
by Tres Seaver 09 Jan '00

09 Jan '00

Spurred by the recent questions about CORBA integration, I have revisited my notes on integrating Zope with external CORBA servers, and put a version up for your review and comments: http://www.zope.org/Members/tseaver/CosNaming/Requirements/index_html Let me know what you think! Tres.

1 0

searching/viewing Zope source?
by Jon Udell 09 Jan '00

09 Jan '00

On the "eat your own dogfood" principle, I decided today that since -- let's face it -- the Zope Python, DTML, and C source files *are* the definitive documentation -- I ought to index them, and why not with ZCatalog? First, I imported /zope/lib/python into Zope. Which took longer than I expected, mainly because although I remembered having used fsimport.py in Zope 1.x, I could not find it in 2.x, nor in any searchable Zope place I could think of (zope.org, egroups.com, altavista, deja.com, etc.). Fortunately, I found a backup of Zope 1 that had fsimport.py, so I set it up as an external method, made a Zopedir called src, and ran this: http://host/src/fsimport?fsdir=/usr/zope2/lib/python Cool. Now the source tree is in Zope. I added a ZCatalog to the src folder, and told it to add everything. I'd have liked to have added just *.py, *.dtml, and *.c, but none of the strings I could think of typing into the with ids: containing: expr: boxes of the "Find Items to ZCatalog" seemed to find anything. I'm guessing that regexps can be used here somewhere, but none of the usual suspects (zope.org, egroups.com, altavista, deja.com, etc.) yielded any clues. (This, of course, is *why* I was trying to index the source in the first place!) Whatever, I just took the whole lot, 800 and some files. Then tried searching, and realized -- oops, no text index, only a meta_data index. After searching the usual suspects again (zope.org, egroups.....) I came up with the idea of indexing the 'data' attribute of the File objects. But no joy. It's looking like either: a) wrap those files, in some way, so that they have a catalog-able attribute (which I guess means changing fsimport.py?) or b) use a conventional search engine I guess b) sounds easier :-) The reason for all this is that I've begun, finally, to be productive in Zope. I would like to be much more productive. I think one thing that would help me would be something like Mozilla's searchable, cross-referenced source viewer: <http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/> I wonder if there's a tool like this that groks Python syntax rather than C? -- Jon Udell | <http://udell.roninhouse.com/> | 603-355-8980

2 2

Re: [Zope-Moz] ANNOUNCE: Zope management tree in Mozilla
by Tres Seaver 09 Jan '00

09 Jan '00

Shalabh Chaturvedi wrote: > > From: Martijn Pieters <mj(a)digicool.com> > > Hello all, > > > > I have created a little demo of what can be achieved mixing Zope, RDF, > > XUL and Mozilla. > <snipped> > > > > You can download it, or view a static demo, at: > > > > http://www.zope.org/Members/mj/Mozilla/RDFTree > <snipped> > > > > I've worked more on this and produced an 'explorer-like' view of the > Zope intallation. > Here's a screenshot : > http://www.zope.org/Members/shalabh/Mozilla/zide/zide.gif > Get the entire thing here: > http://www.zope.org/Members/shalabh/Mozilla/zide > > Martijn : should we merge this into your stream? Very nice! I think a lot of the pain of dealing with Zope through the current management interface goes away if the latency of the request/reply cycle is imperceptible -- your tree view emulates the interface perfectly, and quickly (of course caching has its own problems...). I wonder if we could fold in the XUL markup editor, and allow client-side creation/editing of DTML documents and methods (with some validation?), with submission. -- ========================================================= Tres Seaver tseaver(a)palladion.com 713-523-6582 Palladion Software http://www.palladion.com

1 0

XML_RPC client for internet explorer
by Johan Carlsson 09 Jan '00

09 Jan '00

I've "compiled" an XMLRPC client (from David Carter-Tod's XML-RPC Client and Server for ASP) that seems to be working with Zope, but it has not been tested (patches and bug rapports are welcome). http://www.zope.org/Members/johanc/ZIE/xmlrpc_client David Carter-Tod's XML-RPC Client and Server for ASP (the client has a bug for working with Zope, simply add [objXML.setRequestHeader "content-type", "text/xml"] before the [objXML.send(requestText)] in [xmlRPC] you be alright.) http://www.wc.cc.va.us/dtod/XMLRPC/ Regards, Johan Carlsson

1 0

RE: [Zope-dev] Product standardization
by Chris McDonough 07 Jan '00

07 Jan '00

> > Without getting too deep into discussion of how a task like > this gets > > started and what its goals should be, I am willing to > loosely "review" a > > few products as requested and as time allows. > > Great! How does one put in a request? :) I think you just did. Which one? Chris McDonough mailto:chrism@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com Publishers of Zope http://www.zope.org

2 1

RE: [Zope] Need help with evaluation issues of Zope
by Michel Pelletier 07 Jan '00

07 Jan '00

> -----Original Message----- > From: Peter.Rupp(a)ual.com [mailto:Peter.Rupp@ual.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 2:47 PM > To: Peter.Rupp(a)ual.com; michel(a)digicool.com > Cc: m.faassen(a)vet.uu.nl > Subject: RE: [Zope] Need help with evaluation issues of Zope > This problem only apears to happen in one specific scenario. If you are using a browser that is running on the same machine as Zope and you are using RedHat 5.1 or 5.2. This problem doesn't occour for us when running both the browser and the server on RedHat 6+. We consider this then to be a pretty minor bug. Can either of you reproduce it in any other situation? -Michel > > > Ok, I can reproduce it now, we're looking into it. > > -Michel > >

1 0