September 2000 - Zope

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by Matthew Burleigh 13 Sep '00

13 Sep '00

-- - Matthew Burleigh - Systems Administrator, Digital Creations - publishers of Zope. - (888)344-4332 -- http://www.digicool.com - http://www.zope.org

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by Matthew Burleigh 13 Sep '00

13 Sep '00

me -- - Matthew Burleigh - Systems Administrator, Digital Creations - publishers of Zope. - (888)344-4332 -- http://www.digicool.com - http://www.zope.org

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Getting the count from dtml-in
by Stuart Foster 13 Sep '00

13 Sep '00

How do I get the count in a sequence? <dtml-var total-rec_id> rec_id is a field from a table that is being used in the <dtml-in>. However the result isn't correct. TIA Stuart

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ZODB editing options via FTP/webdav, and 2 design questions
by Chris Beaumont 13 Sep '00

13 Sep '00

Hello all, I'm curious about what the current state-of-the-art is for using techniques other than (clumsy) browser editing to edit Zope objects in the ODB, and FTP and webdav -capable products and which ones they like the most.. How is webdav different than FTP? How would one use it? I've used BBEdit extensively with Zope and it's great.. however, I cant help but wonder if there is some other, more visual approach I dont know about.. I can do my templates outside of Zope and then move them into DTML, but I am curious what others do.. what the cool tools and most effective methods of working with the ZODB are.. Is anyone using GoLive? Is there anyway to edit "live" DTML and see it _in action_ without needing a multitude of separate windows open? The "DTML Templates" product looks intriguing.. What is the workflow like? How do people use it? Another "design" related question.. Does Zope provide a method to use a resizable clear-gif spacer image? I like to use them to fix the minimum size of table cells and enforce a "grid". What's the best way of doing this in Zope? Thank you. Chris Beaumont cbeaumon(a)msri.org

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Date format problems
by Stuart Foster 12 Sep '00

12 Sep '00

I am using the following on an NT installation with no problems <dtml-var timestamp fmt='%m/%d/%Y'> However when I use it on a Linux install it get Error Type: ValueError Error Value: unsupported format character 'm' (0x6d) What am I missing here.

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zope stuf product
by technology＠mylinuxisp.com 12 Sep '00

12 Sep '00

http://www.zope.org/Members/greulen/zopestud This is too cool. Way alpha and it is what I have been looking for. After I installed it I opened the options drop menu and selected settings. I then clicked the 'editor' tab and selected the 'Editor executable' radio button. I browsed to dreamwaver setting it as the default editor. It works.

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Never mind dtml-in
by Stuart Foster 12 Sep '00

12 Sep '00

Oops how about count-rec_id.. Sorry for the previous message. Stuart

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by Matthew Burleigh 12 Sep '00

12 Sep '00

me -- Matt Burleigh Systems Administrator, Digital Creations - publishers of Zope.

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ZOPE 2.2.1 Problem
by Steve Williams 12 Sep '00

12 Sep '00

I installed ZOPE 2.2.1 yesterday under Windows 98 to fix a ZSQL authorization problem. After rebooting my machine this morning, when I run ZOPE's start.bat, the DOS command screen comes up, flashes some messages quickly and then disappears, so ZOPE won't start. Running Z2.py in Python gives me the following traceback: >>> Traceback (innermost last): File "C:\Program Files\Python\Pythonwin\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py", line 237, in RunScript exec codeObject in __main__.__dict__ File "C:\Program Files\ZopeHub\Z2.PY", line 554, in ? exec "import "+MODULE in {} File "<string>", line 1, in ? File "C:\Program Files\ZopeHub\lib\python\Zope\__init__.py", line 94, in ? import ZODB, ZODB.ZApplication, imp File "C:\Program Files\ZopeHub\lib\python\ZODB\__init__.py", line 85, in ? import sys, ExtensionClass, TimeStamp, cPersistence, Persistence ImportError: No module named ExtensionClass I've got an ExtensionClass.ref and an ExtensionClass.stx in lib/Python/StructuredText/regressions, but no ExtensionClass.py I have no products installed, other than the ones that come with the distribution and I have no Python extensions. Steve Williams

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Re: [Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill
by Magnus Alvestad 12 Sep '00

12 Sep '00

Just to state my position, I have worked as a professional commercial software developer since 1994. I think the GPL is appropriate for work I do outside customer contracts. [Nils Kassube] | The problem is not that a client who paid for custom development | will get the source. It's the fact that you have to release the | source code of an enhanced GPL'ed component (and possibly stuff | built with it) for everyone else, too. (complete version at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html) -- from the GPL 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following: a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, -- These are the most relevant sections. It's pretty clear that you are only obligated to distribute source to the parties you've distributed object code / executable form to. | Another issue is that in a complex object oriented environment | like Zope it's difficult to determine if you only used a GPL'ed | component or "embraced and extended" it. Actually the embrace and extension was a silly Microsoft-joke, the definition in the license text is more verbose: .. a "work based on the Program" means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another language. .. I don't think a zope site could be defined as a 'work'. -Magnus

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