May 2000 - Zope - Zope lists

test, please ignore...
by Chris McDonough 30 May '00

30 May '00

Chris McDonough Digital Creations Publishers of Zope - http://www.zope.org

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TimeSheet product?
by Jean Jordaan 30 May '00

30 May '00

Hi Zopers I'm looking for something to track the time I spend on different jobs. Has anyone written anything like this? I tried searching through the products, but found only issue trackers. My main criterion is simplicity of use .. I've never managed to use a timesheet continuously, if it's too much trouble to keep it up to date. -- jean(a)mosaicsoftware.com

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Re: [Zope] Use of lambda expression in DTML
by Anthony Baxter 30 May '00

30 May '00

>>> Chris McDonough wrote > Nope. Lamba, filter, reduce, and map should IMHO not be part of DTML. > Actually, exprs probably shouldn't be in there in the first place. > People are trying to use DTML as a way to process non-UI elements. This > is a slippery slope, and leads to something like PHP or ASP. My opinion > is this: Generate and format your HTML with DTML, and do everything > else in Python. This gives you the added benefit that you can change > the return values of functions by changing the Python code without > having to muck with DTML, which is painful any way you look at it. Until PythonMethods are back in the distribution, you can't stop people from using DTML for this stuff - the only alternative is to give everyone who ever needs to do something more than simple HTML access to the file system. I can't see that happening on zope.org, or many other sites. I agree whole-heartedly that DTML's expr syntax is nightmarish and needs to be deprecated - but right now there's nothing to replace it with. As far as the issue at hand - whether lambda/map/reduce/filter should be allowed - the simplest way to enable them for PythonMethods also enables them for dtml-expr. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <anthony(a)interlink.com.au> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

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ZOracleDA woes - cannot connect
by Michal Bukovjan 30 May '00

30 May '00

Please help!!! I am trying to connect to Oracle server. Running Zope 2.1.4, ZServer alone (for now), Debian frozen(potato). I have stable ZOracleDA 2.1.0. After a lot of work, I succeeded to compile the DCOracle package, and I am able to connect with the Python script DCOracle_test.py, which is included. I am only able to connect when I am a user 'oracle'. But when I try to connect from Zope, the connection never happens,and Zope returns "Document contained no data. Contact your network administrator". Sometimes, Zope dies. I am really desperate by now, as I try to make connection for three days now. I searched all FAQs on Zope site, nothing found. Any idea what I am doing wrong? Thanks, Michal Bukovjan

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Re: [Zope] something missing in my Oracle setup?
by Anthony Baxter 30 May '00

30 May '00

>>> Justin Sheehy wrote > Hello, > > I am trying to build the DCOracle module and having trouble right off > the bat. I have tried both 1.3.0 and 1.3.1 b1 with the same results. > > The file src/oci_8.c does an #include "oci.h", but I don't seem to > have a file named oci.h in my oracle install: It normally lives in rdbms/demo/oci.h Under some Oracle installation modes, rdbms/ is only accessible to user 'oracle'. I'm not sure what options you'll need to specify to get that particular directory installed. (if someone was to destroy the oracle installer and replace it with something that worked, I think a lot of people would be very very happy.) On a related note - make sure you link with libclntsh, not libnjni8 - at least one version of a Setup file for DCOracle specified njni8. As far as we can tell, libnjni8 is not properly threadsafe on solaris/ sparc. Anthony

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PROPOSAL: Online chat with Jim and Paul
by Paul Everitt 30 May '00

30 May '00

Howdy folks. It's clear that we were unclear in communicating the Perl For Zope announcement. What this needs is a little...clarity! I propose an IRC chat on Wednesday with Jim Fulton and me. The topic will be "What Are Methods and How Does Perl Fit In?" I'll announce time and location later, when someone coaches me on just how you do these damn things on IRC. :^) Why are we doing this? First, I think it's crucial that we at Digital Creations work harder to engage the community in the thinking of Zope. (In fact, this is the number one goal of Brian Lloyd, Zope Product Manager). And the great debate over the announcement makes this a perfect time. Second, I'm hoping that this can become a regular event. The Mozilla crowd has done this, with good success I believe. I'm trying to follow their pattern (one hour, logs posted afterwards). Thoughts? --Paul Paul Everitt Digital Creations paul(a)digicool.com 540.371.6909 ----------------------------------------- The Open Source Zope application server http://www.zope.org/ -----------------------------------------

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something missing in my Oracle setup?
by Justin Sheehy 30 May '00

30 May '00

Hello, I am trying to build the DCOracle module and having trouble right off the bat. I have tried both 1.3.0 and 1.3.1 b1 with the same results. The file src/oci_8.c does an #include "oci.h", but I don't seem to have a file named oci.h in my oracle install: $ find $ORACLE_HOME -name '*.h' /opt/orahome1/network/public/tnsapi.h /opt/orahome1/network/public/nzerror.h /opt/orahome1/network/public/nzt.h /opt/orahome1/otrace/public/epc.h /opt/orahome1/plsql/public/ociextp.h /opt/orahome1/precomp/public/sql2oci.h /opt/orahome1/precomp/public/sqlucs2.h /opt/orahome1/precomp/public/oraca.h /opt/orahome1/precomp/public/sqlapr.h /opt/orahome1/precomp/public/sqlca.h /opt/orahome1/precomp/public/sqlcpr.h /opt/orahome1/precomp/public/sqlda.h /opt/orahome1/precomp/public/sqlkpr.h /opt/orahome1/precomp/public/a.out.h /opt/orahome1/precomp/public/limits.h /opt/orahome1/precomp/public/bits/mathcalls.h /opt/orahome1/precomp/public/sys/ipc.h My Oracle install is the 'Programmer' distribution from Oracle 8.1.5. Do I need the full install, not just the Programmer install, or am I missing something else? I tried using the Setup file for Oracle 8i on Linux that was sent to this list by Laurent Chane-Chuen-Kee, but that does not have any effect on the problem. Thanks, -Justin Sheehy

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defining counters in zope(newbie)
by Sudhir Kumar 30 May '00

30 May '00

How do I keep track of counter in Zope. For example, if I want to produce the following output: 1. book1 Author1 2. book2 3. book3 4. book4 Author2 5. book5 6. book6 7. book7 Author3 i.e. book1, book2, book3 are by Author1, etc. I need something like the following ....... count = 0 <-------------------------------intended <dtml-in "AuthorList()"> <dtml-let author="sequence-item"> <dtml-in "BookList(author)"> <dtml-if "sequence-index==0"> <dtml-var count> sequence-item <dtml-var author> <dtml-else> <dtml-var count> sequence-item count=count+1 <---------------------- intended </dtml-if> </dtml-in></dtml-let> </dtml-in> I do not know how to set count=0, count=count+1 in dtml. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, -- sudhir

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GenericUserFolder Bug
by Phil Harris 30 May '00

30 May '00

Hi I've found a bug in GenericUserFolder. Basically if you try and do any restriction by domain then it will fail every time. The problem is that on line 151 of GenericUserFolder.py, it tries to use addr_match and host_match, which I assume was meant o be the same as the one in the standard User.py. The fix is to copy or import the ones from the standard User.py and then all is well with the GUF. For the record, I copied these two lines: addr_match=regex.compile('[0-9\.\*]*').match #TS host_match=regex.compile('[-A-Za-z0-9\.\*]*').match #TS HTH Phil phil.harris(a)zope.co.uk

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ZClass questions
by Graham Chiu 30 May '00

30 May '00

I can't recall if my question made it to the list following last week's outage, but here goes again... 1. How does one iterate over values within a property sheet? 2. When adding a selection field to a property sheet, how does one "returns a list of strings from which the selection(s) can be chosen" -- Regards, Graham Chiu gchiu<at>compkarori.co.nz http://www.compkarori.co.nz/index.php Powered by Interbase and Zope

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