August 1999 - Zope - Zope lists

Zope site overwhelmed
by Tim Wilson 07 Aug '99

07 Aug '99

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a mirror for zope.org?
by Jason Jones 07 Aug '99

07 Aug '99

Is there a mirror for www.zope.org? I'd like to download the 2.0b3 package, but haven't been able to connect all day long. Traceroute doesn't make it to the server either (it looks like it gets a hop away). Does anyone know of someplace else where I could get the files? If not, does anyone know when the Zope site will be back up? Thanks, Jason Jones jason_j(a)countermedia.org

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Q: More detailed ZPT Roadmap?
by Michael Bernstein 06 Aug '99

06 Aug '99

I've been testing Squishdot for a while now, and a few production sites are already using it, even though it's an alpha release. I know that Butch Landingin (Squishdot's author) is interested in integrating it with the ZPT when it becomes available. The question is, how much does Squishdot's functionality overlap the 'News' component of the ZPT? The current roadmap for the ZPT only includes a short description of each component (although we now know a lot more about ZCatalog by virtue of it's being released in alpha). Another area of possible overlap is between the membership component and the various roll-your-own cookie-based login systems that people are implementing. In short, can we have a more detailed roadmap for each of the ZPT components? Thank you for your attention, Michael Bernstein.

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RE: [Zope] The new DTML syntax
by Theodore Patrick 06 Aug '99

06 Aug '99

<Z-COMMENT>All I have to say is:</Z> <Z-SIMPLE>KEEP IT SIMPLE.</Z> <Z-CLEAR>CLEAR</Z> <Z-CONCISE>CONCISE</Z> <Z-VISIBLE>AND EASY TO READ.</Z> <Z-COMFORTABLE_CHAIR>Something that I am used to, like HTML or XML.</Z> <Z-NEVER_TO_LATE>It is never to late to change.</Z> Keep up the great work, DC. It will turn out best in the long run. Theodore E. Patrick http://www.ishophere.com NOTE: Any way you could globally specify changes to the tag Syntax?? i.e. Our own tags, Use at your own risk?

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including Style Sheets
by Stephan Richter 06 Aug '99

06 Aug '99

hey guys, what is the best way to include style sheets using Zope? 1. There is the LINK tag, but what can I write in the SRC attribute? 2. And then I can use the STYLE tag. <style>  </style> Is number 2 the better way in this case? What type needs the stylesheet to be? File, DTML method, DTML document stephan -- Stephan Richter iXL - Software Designer and Engineer

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RE: [Zope] The new DTML syntax
by Alexander Staubo 06 Aug '99

06 Aug '99

>From: Paul Everitt [mailto:Paul@digicool.com] >Sent: 6. august 1999 18:15 >To: Zope Mailing List (E-mail) >Subject: RE: [Zope] The new DTML syntax > >Alexander wrote: >> natural languages, "dtml-if" isn't a word; it's two words; we >> learn, by >> convention, to split such hyphenated constructs into separate >> words. Our >> mind works best with individual words. Why go against the grain and >> teach the brain a new thing? > >Unfortunately you're going against the grain of HTML on this one. From >the W3C statement on XHTML, which is the declared future for HTML: [snip] > >Thus, polluting the HTML namespace with custom DTML tags is against the >grain. The prepended "dtml-" imitates the XHTML mechanism of >specifying >namespaces. Erhm. You _are_ polluting the HTML namespace, Paul. The "dtml-" prefix is in no way XML-compliant. It isn't even "almost" compliant. Just adding a hyphen does not make it cleaner. >Please feel free to explain to the W3C that their concept of >modularization goes against the way the brain works, and that one big >global namespace is the right thing to do. I happen to agree with the W3C, although I concede that the "only one namespace at a time" rule isn't particularly good on the fingertips. It means that -- at least, if I got this right -- once we go for XML namespaces to distinguish DTML elements, we'll either be using a dtml: prefix or an html: prefix, depending on much typing we'll be inclined to do. Either that, or specifying the whole namespace URI for every tag. (Not bloody likely.) >> I'm not surprised that DC dominates the negatively-charged end of the > >Please explain the "not surprised". Do you feel in some way that we've >followed a pattern of being closed-minded? With all respect, I wasn't talking about closed-mindedness, rather about conservativeness, and Christopher's Petrilli comment about it being too late to make any changes. As Jeff Bauer points out, even open-source development isn't really democratic. >Do others in the community feel that we've been stifling input? (Note that I didn't say you were stifling input. There's a huge difference between stifling input, and ignoring it. ;) [...] >In summary, you've brought up a number of interesting and valid points, >as have many others in this thread on both sides of the >argument. Sound >judgement is the art of sorting through both the reasoned as >well as the >confrontational arguments and making the best decision. Define "confrontational arguments". :) >--Paul > >Paul Everitt Digital Creations >paul(a)digicool.com 540.371.6909 >----------------------------------------- >The Open Source Zope application server >http://www.zope.org/ -- Alexander Staubo http://www.mop.no/~alex/ "Elvis skipped around the car and threw open the trunk. 'Hoopla!' he was heard to say, 'This is a 7.62mm M134 General Electric Minigun. Up to 6,000 rounds per minute. 7.62mm X 51 shells. 1.36kg recoil adaptors. Six muzzle velocity of 869m/s.' 'Oh,' said Rex, 'So that's what it is.'" --Robert Rankin, _They Came And Ate Us: Armageddon 2: The B-Movie_

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home-made modules and Zope...
by Donald Holten 06 Aug '99

06 Aug '99

I have a module named mainvars.py, in the Zope/Extensions directory. I'm trying to import from it into one of my python programs. This works fine for python normally, but Zope changes the local directory to /. Is there a place in Zope that I can place modules so they can be accessed by my python programs? Donner

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Re: [Zope] ZServer vs. Apache
by Joshua Brauer 06 Aug '99

06 Aug '99

Two Zope/Apache questions. 1) I asked a while ago about 2.0b1 and apache which no longer works for me. (1.x still works but not 2.x) 2) Does ZServer do multihoming? I'd be happy to drop apache if I could get multiple sites to run from a single port on a single box. Josh At 5:56 PM -0400 8/4/99, Christopher Petrilli wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm still in the stage of trying to get the "big picture" of Zope. I still > > don't quite understand the relationship between ZServer and Apache. > > > > Is it either ZServer *or* Apache or can they work together? > >Yes :-) > > > Would anyone care to provide a short summary of this concept. Thanks. > >Put simply, ZServer is a interface to the object publisher in Zope. It can >understand a myriad of protocols: > > * HTTP (and WebDAV) > * FTP > * PCGI > * Monitor access > >So if you're running a 100% Zope site (like www.zope.org :-) then you could >put ZServer up as the main server, and it'd probably be a LOT faster (2-3x >probably a good point to estimate, because of the overhead of CGI). If >however, you're using something in combination with Zope, then you'll want >to use Apache (or IIS, or Netscape) to integrate this all together. > >Make sense? > >Chris >-- >| Christopher Petrilli Python Powered Digital Creations, Inc. >| petrilli(a)digicool.com http://www.digicool.com > >_______________________________________________ >Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org >http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > >(To receive general Zope announcements, see: >http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > >For developer-specific issues, zope-dev(a)zope.org - >http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) # # # _____________________________________________ Joshua Brauer Box 915 http://www.brauer.org Fort Collins, CO 80522 Fax: (419) 793-4120 _____________________________________________ In flying I have learned that carelessness and overconfidence are usually far more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks. -- Wilbur Wright in a letter to his father, September 1900 _____________________________________________________

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Product installation problem
by Andrew Ho 06 Aug '99

06 Aug '99

Hi, I have just installed Zope with pcgi to Apache. Everything seems to work fine except when I un-tared example products into lib/python/products and restarted Zope, they are not loaded at all. Alternatively, when I put the new Products into /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/Zope/Products, I can see the new Products loaded into the control panel/product management screen but I cannot get the newly installed products to work. They appear on the control panel/product management but nothing is added to the pull-down "add" menu. Anyone know what I may be doing wrong? thanks in advance, Andrew Ho

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"virtual" subobjects
by Tim Potter 06 Aug '99

06 Aug '99

I'm grappling with the idea of having "virtual folders" (for want of a better term) existing under a Zope folder and am not sure how to implement it. The user will basically be navigating through subobjects whose identity will be stored in a database: http://somehost/notes/a/b/c where a, b, c correspond to some structure in the database. My question is it possible for the object at http://somehost/notes to handle all requests to subobjects under it without creating them by hand in Zope? I suspect some Python programming would be involved but I'm not sure what. Tim. -- Tim Potter, System Admin/Programmer "Disco Stu doesn't advertise" Advanced Computational Systems CRC, RSISE Bldg Australian National University, Canberra 0200, AUSTRALIA Ph: +61 2 62798813 Fax: +61 2 62798602

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