January 2000 - Zope - Zope lists

DCOracle for 8.1.5 (8i)
by Cayce Ullman 29 Jan '00

29 Jan '00

I'm using 8i under linux right now.... Here is my Setup file : *shared* # Setup file for Oracle 8.0.4 (Tested for Solarus on Intel and Sparc). # # Unfortunately, the libraries needed to link Oracle change from revision # to revision. # # Oracle provides a make file for building "demo" programs in # $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/demo/demo_rdbms.mk. I have been unable to # use this make file to build Python extensions. Adapting it is # not adequate, because it may change for new Oracle revs. # My approach is to use demo_rdbms.mk to build one of the # demo programs, look at the libraries linked, and start from there. :-( # ORACLE_INCLUDES=$(ORACLE_HOME)/rdbms/demo -I$(ORACLE_HOME)/rdbms/public -I$(ORACLE_HOME)/network/public -I$(ORACLE_HOME)/plsql/public ORACLE_L=-lnjni8 ORACLE_LIBS=$(ORACLE_HOME)/lib $(ORACLE_L) oci_ oci_.c -I$(ORACLE_INCLUDES) -L$(ORACLE_LIBS) -DDCORACLE8 Buffer Buffer.c # End of setup file. The original setup file I used had a ton of libraries and it made an so file that is 5.4 megs. Now I've found you can link against the njni8 lib (no idea what that is) but it makes a 230k so and it all seems to work. Cayce __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

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WebDAV client for MacOS (and question)
by Jim Harrison 29 Jan '00

29 Jan '00

For those interested, there is a functional Mac WebDAV client called Goliath at <http://www.webdav.org/goliath/> with source and executable available under the Gnu GPL. Interestingly, DTML methods downloaded via WebDAV are executed first so that the resulting html is sent (similar to what would be sent to a web browser for a standard http request) rather than the dtml code of the method. This limits the usefulness of WebDAV for editing methods and dynamic pages. Does anyone know whether there is something I need to set up in Zope to allow it to send the actual method code (I'm running Zope 2.1.2)? Jim Harrison Univ. of Pittsburgh

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hasattr
by Kyle Burnett 29 Jan '00

29 Jan '00

i am trying to see if the file cover.gif exists. the directory structure is: /palette4/2000-01-27/cover.gif. since the date is the variable "issue," i am having trouble stringing the whole statment together. <dtml-if "_.hasattr(PARENTS[-2].palette4,issue,'cover.gif')"> this clearly does not work. anybody have an idea? thanks, kyle

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Re: IMAP vs POP in worldpilot (was Re: Worldpilot (was Re: Any news from ZOPE track? ))
by Anthony Baxter 29 Jan '00

29 Jan '00

>>> Ryan Hughes wrote > Furthermore with most POP servers, it causes an unnecessary high load on > the server side, by copying the whole mailbox to a temporary file on > every new POP connection. If you don't delete mail your mailbox can > reach a considerable size. mmm... scaling. > If POP get's implemented sometime into Worldpilot it will be used as a > download protocol to retrieve mail to be stored in a "local" worldpilot > storage, but would require removing it from the POP server. We're > currently refraining from implementing it, since it does require some > thought in regard to browser timeouts. Our IMP-based solution on www.ekno.com and www.ekit.com implements POP as 'fetch from remote POP server into local IMAP store'. That works ok. It also means you can keep the logic of displaying messages cleaner. Anthony

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Re: [Zope] DCOracle for 8.1.5 (8i)
by Anthony Baxter 29 Jan '00

29 Jan '00

DCOracle works against 8i. You just have to fiddle the Setup script to get the link libraries right. It doesn't use some of the new neato whizzbang 8i features, but if that sort of early-adopter stuff is what you need, that's where you pay them to add it. I'm using it against an 8i database every day. Anthony. >>> "Adam Gotheridge" wrote > Hmmm.... I would think external rdbms support is crucial to the future > success of the product. If you had to pick one rdbms to support, wouldn't a > current Oracle be a good choice? Zope is a great product, but if there is to > be no 8i support it will force me to use something else. Currently we are > running Zope on a win2k box connected to a debian 8i box, but the hope has > really been get zope off Windows. > > I think you should guys should consider revisiting the issue. You can > download 8i from the technet site to get an idea how much work it will take. > I'm sure someone spent considerable time making the existing oracle adapter > work, it might not be that bad to make it work against 8i. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michel Pelletier" <michel(a)digicool.com> > To: <zwang(a)turbolinux.com>; <zope(a)zope.org> > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 4:49 PM > Subject: RE: [Zope] DCOracle for 8.1.5 (8i) > > > > I don't know what the status on 8i compatability is, have you tried it? > > It might just work. > > > > Note that Oracle's client libraries change in non-backwards compatable > > ways quite often. You many need to make minor adjustments to the code. > > > > We do not have 8i, and the only way we're going to look at it is if one > > of our customers requires 8i compatability or wants to specificly pay > > for 8i integration. > > > > -Michel > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: zwang(a)turbolinux.com [mailto:zwang@turbolinux.com] > > > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 1:14 PM > > > To: zope(a)zope.org > > > Subject: [Zope] DCOracle for 8.1.5 (8i) > > > > > > > > > Does anyone here know when will the Adapter for Oracle 8i be > > > ready for us to > > > use? Any plan at all? If there is any, what is the time frame? > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org > > > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > > > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > > > (Related lists - > > > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > > > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org > > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > > (Related lists - > > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > (Related lists - > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) -- Anthony Baxter <anthony(a)interlink.com.au> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

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Worldpilot (was Re: Any news from ZOPE track? )
by Anthony Baxter 29 Jan '00

29 Jan '00

>>> Jochen Haeberle wrote > Why only IMAP? POP is used much more and does not have all the > problems IMAP implementaions have these days. Do you inted WorldPilot > to be used as the only MailClient or as a supplement when out of > office? This way a POP client would suffice (could be set to not > delete messages from the server by default) The problem with POP is that the webserver has to download all the messages to itself to be able to do anything with it. Once it's downloaded them, it can't put them back afterwards. "keep mail on server" is a really really nasty hack. It just doesn't work for a mailbox of any complexity. > OT: With all the mail I keep in my local mailbox I don't know how > IMAP will ever be the way for me, although I'd love to have access to > all the mail from everywhere... > > Jochen > > > _______________________________________________ > Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > (Related lists - > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) -- Anthony Baxter <anthony(a)interlink.com.au> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

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Shadow password
by Matt Goodall 29 Jan '00

29 Jan '00

I would like to authenticate users from the UNIX system. Unfortunately, my system uses shadow passwords which are not world readable so I can't use the etcUserFolder product. I understand the security implications of this next question but is there any way to authenticate users but from a shadow password file? Or is there a better way of doing things? Is there any way of using the PAM system perhaps? Thanks. -- Matt Goodall | Isotek Electronics Ltd email: mgg(a)isotek.co.uk | Claro House, Servia Road Tel: +44 113 2343202 | Leeds, LS7 1NL Fax: +44 113 2342918 | England

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Re: [Zope] Any news from ZOPE track?
by Anthony Baxter 29 Jan '00

29 Jan '00

>>> Magnus Heino wrote > > - A really cool workgroup email/calendarding/contact management system > > called WorldPilot (which is based on Zope) is going to be open- > > sourced... > http://demo.worldpilot.com:8080/site/ > A beta is available for download... I've got this working on my standard Zope CVS install - I had to copy just the lib/python/Products/WorldPilot/ directory to my install, then make the directories specified in the INSTALL file. Problems I've found so far: It expects a pickled file in /var/spool/worldpilot/sessions/Logons to exist - I think I fooled it here by making it a pickle of an empty dictionary. from looking at the code, this seems ok. Something like the following will work: % cd /var/spool/worldpilot/sessions % python Python 1.5.2 (#2, Sep 12 1999, 16:22:52) [GCC 2.7.2.3] on linux2 Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam >>> import cPickle >>> cPickle.Pickler(open('Logons', 'wb')).dump({}) >>> ^D (to exit python) When you create a WorldPilot object, you get something that looks a lot like the add form from the Poll product :) The code's a leeetle bit too enthusiastic with bareword 'except:' clauses around problem areas. This can make finding problems a bit ugly. Other than that, it seems to be working fine - I had to tweak the source a little to get it to use the IMAP server that I wanted, but heck, that's fine. Anthony

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Re: [Zope] Hi again,
by Anthony Baxter 29 Jan '00

29 Jan '00

it's a bug on my part - edit the sqlDeleteValue method and make a default value for name of "" - ie change the arg list to name="" is fixed in local code, should be part of 0.3.0 (out this weekend, all things going well). Anthony >>> Timothy Grant wrote > Just started messing around with SQLSession, and have come across > something I don't understand. If I call SESSION.clear(), Zope reports a > BadRequest exception with the value as ['name']. Does SESSION.clear() > NOT clear an entire session, can it only be used to clear specific names > within the session? > > Thanks. > -- > Stand Fast, > tjg. > > Chief Technology Officer tjg(a)exceptionalminds.com > Red Hat Certified Engineer www.exceptionalminds.com > Avalon Technology Group, Inc. (503) 246-3630 > >>>>>>>>>>>>Linux...Because rebooting isn't normal<<<<<<<<<<<< > > _______________________________________________ > Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > (Related lists - > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) -- Anthony Baxter <anthony(a)interlink.com.au> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

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Hi again,
by Timothy Grant 29 Jan '00

29 Jan '00

Just started messing around with SQLSession, and have come across something I don't understand. If I call SESSION.clear(), Zope reports a BadRequest exception with the value as ['name']. Does SESSION.clear() NOT clear an entire session, can it only be used to clear specific names within the session? Thanks. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Chief Technology Officer tjg(a)exceptionalminds.com Red Hat Certified Engineer www.exceptionalminds.com Avalon Technology Group, Inc. (503) 246-3630 >>>>>>>>>>>>Linux...Because rebooting isn't normal<<<<<<<<<<<<

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