September 1999 - Zope

zGold
by Phil Harris 15 Sep '99

15 Sep '99

Wow, I just checked my logs and 45 separate peole have downloaded zGold, wow I didn't know it was that good, 8¬) See ya Phil phil(a)philh.org

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Re: [Zope] doing a "diff" of two XML export files.
by Anthony Baxter 15 Sep '99

15 Sep '99

>>> Anthony Baxter wrote > It seems to me that it would be a Cool Thing to be able to take > two Zope XML export files, say from different days, and feed it into > something that would read the two, and produce a "change file" which > specifies what has changed (think "diff" for XML). > thoughts? A little bird told me that people are already considering > something for this task... any ideas? > would the XML folks have already put something like this together? I went web crawling, and found a package at IBM's alphaworks called XMLTreeDiff - it's java-based, and I've given up for now on trying to get a working Java environment on my box (the dependencies are rather scary...) just a pointer for anyone else who's interested. Anthony

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Comma Deliminated Format Databases and Zope
by jonathon 15 Sep '99

15 Sep '99

Going through the documentation for Zope, I've come across a multitude of ways to get SQL Databases into Zope. What I haven't found, is a simple way to import a comma deliminated format database into Zope. Does such a critter not exist, or did I overlook it, in going through the documentation for SQL? [ My theory is that ZCatalog ought to replace comma deliminated files, that are found so often in perl cgi scripts, and that the migration path does not go straight to a SQL database. ] Or is the preferred method to translate comma delimited format database files to something that GadFly can use? [ If that is the case, do I need to roll my own script to do that conversion automatically, or is such a script available somewhere? ] xan jonathon

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Re: [Zope] Suppressing <BASE> tag
by Maik Roeder 15 Sep '99

15 Sep '99

Hi, [...] Further, I don't want any base tag at all. To disable Base Tags in Zope, I use the following hack in my standard_html_header: <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>foo</TITLE>  </HEAD> <BODY> Zope renders this as follows:  </HEAD> As you can see, the base tag is inserted in a place where the browser will ignore it. Maik

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doing a "diff" of two XML export files.
by Anthony Baxter 15 Sep '99

15 Sep '99

It seems to me that it would be a Cool Thing to be able to take two Zope XML export files, say from different days, and feed it into something that would read the two, and produce a "change file" which specifies what has changed (think "diff" for XML). This would be useful for ZClass based packages, and making new versions of same. Tracking what's done on a site on a day-by-day basis (something that would produce a list at the end of the day showing exactly what changed, and where). Just doing a diff of the XML files is one extraordinarily yucky way to do this, but it's not exactly easy to then reapply that as a patch. Something that walked through the files would be more useful... thoughts? A little bird told me that people are already considering something for this task... any ideas? would the XML folks have already put something like this together? Anthony

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LDAPAdapter product available for gamma testing
by Dr. Ross Lazarus 15 Sep '99

15 Sep '99

If you have a working ldapmodule and a working ldap server, you might be interested/willing to test a new zope product called LDAPAdapter available at http://www.zope.org:18200/Members/rossl/LDAPAdapter which essentially acts like Michel Pelletier's IMAPAdapter - except it authenticates from an LDAP server (doh!). More usefully, it grabs the cn's of the groups the user happens to be in making them available as the user's roles (plus, LDAP of course) - this potentially allows you to manage zope roles (and thus access to zope objects) through your ldap groups. Seemed like a good idea to me anyway. It's a fairly clumsy hack derived from IMAPAdapter and has been only lightly tested. Please report bugs or success to rossl(a)med.usyd.edu.au

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Creating a Product
by jonathanbrisbin＠excite.com 15 Sep '99

15 Sep '99

I'm starting to create a Product in Zope, and I quickly realized I don't know what the heck I'm doing :-) Can someone export, etc... a product they've created so I can see the Zope methods, propertysheets, etc... that you have to create to get the silly thing working right :-) Maybe someone needs to do a tutorial on actually creating Products?? ;-) Thanks for your help! ><> <>< ><> <>< ><> <>< Jon Brisbin JonathanBrisbin(a)excite.com ________________________________________________________________ Get FREE voicemail, fax and email at http://voicemail.excite.com Talk online at http://voicechat.excite.com

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Re: [Zope] FreeBSD 2.2.7: Can't get started.
by Michel Pelletier 15 Sep '99

15 Sep '99

Don Porter wrote: > > > If you see the above request work, then it's not Zope that's your > > problem, it's medusa. This will at least help you narrow it down. > > OK, then it's medusa. Grrr. I don't want to debug Medusa (I'm not > a Python programmer.... yet), but I'd rather try Zope out with ZServer > instead of going to all the trouble of interfacing to another HTTP > server. Any further hints on how I might make Medusa behave? > Did running Zope with one application thread (-t 1) work? -Michel

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[ANNOUNCEMENT] MySQLdb-0.1.0 available
by Andy Dustman 15 Sep '99

15 Sep '99

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I'm happy to announce that MySQLdb is now officially beta and has been bumped up to version 0.1.0. You can find it at: http://starship.python.net/crew/adustman No real new features, a few minor bugfixes, including plugging a memory leak introduced into 0.0.3. The patch for ZMySQLDA has been updated and may actually work. Note that MySQLdb (and it's underlying _mysql module) are designed to work and play well with threaded apps like Zope, whereas MySQLmodule-1.4 was not, so if this patch really works (I notice ZMySQLDA still uses regex) you should see a performance increase. If the patch doesn't work, your performance will be shot to hell (as in, no performance at all). - -- andy dustman | programmer/analyst | comstar.net, inc. telephone: 770.485.6025 / 706.549.7689 | icq: 32922760 | pgp: 0xc72f3f1d -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQEPAwUBN97ErxOPBZTHLz8dAQHPLQfPcLKyvBKI0WJ2TZ3K4ysgRLJmA6H62NaE U46Cc+4YkI4xvOuj5Ls054x5uQnoHis7UYEMlGR/17HKNqEs6OLZhPnKmtW0Biak /PieeCJPkHFAuqukVW9WL2r/8zzY3W3RkTAsyKFJQKQ20JbMs4g87epqP+IzF+ME XMnpUWgh4ih/Tf/8AsfuInqMw2MldkKz2kny33GAx9SyqkNghfJ6g4PZtjibLAL0 I0tFlcmz+6IoTSzjAEvyBl6R9jkSZjpzDDiTyPoYb5CpS20b8GDlXFScGGFzo38v X3CYi3HU8ELHBrZNjcO9AgTC997Vz3YpywyWBcxeHhHPRw== =T8ad -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Zope] DCOracle Compile Problem
by Christopher Petrilli 15 Sep '99

15 Sep '99

> When trying to compile the DCOracle package, I get the error below. > > I am using Oracle8i, version 8.1.5.0.0. I have checked ORACLE_HOME, > LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I can connect with sqlplus. ProC is installed and > configured. I know I am missing something simple, but its going > right past me. Compiling Oracle is not for the faint of heart. With each release brings new library orders and contortions that you have to go through. We do our testing on Solaris (x86 actually) because that's what our paying customer runs (the run Sparc, but...). It would be great to be able to ./configure it, but it just doesn't work in practice, so if you don't understand Oracle, you're going to have a hard time getting it compiled. Perhaps we can move some of the stuff to more compartmentalized options (more like what _tkinter uses). This is something to think about. If people can send me the options they used with getting it compiled along with; * OS and revision * Oracle revision * Incense burned while compiling I'll be happy to include some information with the distribution. Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli Python Powered Digital Creations, Inc. | petrilli(a)digicool.com http://www.digicool.com

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