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Squishdot and Portal Toolkit
by Tom Deprez 10 Jun '99

10 Jun '99

Hi all, just looked at these two great products (squishdot and Portal Toolkit). Is it possible that these two overlap each other? Or is this again something I need to learn? I still have problems understanding all these www terms and definitions.... Great work! Tom.

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RE: [Zope] ever wanted to reverse the  tag?
by Martijn Pieters 10 Jun '99

10 Jun '99

>No kidding. I hope Marijn's patch made it into 2.0.0, can one of you >check the CVS and sniff it down? If it isn't, mail me and I'll put the >patch in myself. > >(to busy to check on it though, just point me ;) Wasn't done yet, but Brian checked it in about an hour ago. -- Martijn Pieters, Web Developer | Antraciet http://www.antraciet.nl | Tel: +31-35-7502100 Fax: +31-35-7502111 | mailto:mj@antraciet.nl http://www.antraciet.nl/~mj | PGP: http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA8A32149 ------------------------------------------

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FYI: Zope Weekly News
by Amos Latteier 10 Jun '99

10 Jun '99

Hi, Probably the top news this week is the release of an alpha of mod_pcgi by Python big-wig Andrew Kuchling. His efforts will lead to much better Zope/Apache integration in the future. Lots of other folks continued to make other important contributions too. * Andrew Kuchling announced an alpha version of mod_pcgi to allow Apache to easily communicate with Zope via PCGI. ftp://starship.python.net/pub/crew/amk/new/mod_pcgi.tgz http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005083.html * Amos Latteier announced the availability of a Portal Toolkit Demo. The demo describes the forthcoming Portal Toolkit and includes animated GIFs to show it in action. http://www.zope.org/Products/PortalToolkit/Tour/ http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005008.html * Ross Lazarus announced an experimental Zope to static HTML external method. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005060.html * A few people discussed "recursive acquisition" or using acquisition to create indirect paths to objects. This feature is confusing to some, but Anthony Baxter explained how he finds it incredibly useful. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005156.html * Zope Documentation Project contributor, Tom Deprez, announced a "Zope Commercial", or site which describes how he uses Zope. http://www.master.cit.be/c8/default.html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005131.html * Anthony Baxter announced an alpha of Zope Dataminer, which is an interesting looking system for dynamically constructing SQL queries via URLs. http://www.interlink.com.au/anthony/dmc-0.1.tgz http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005173.html * Alex Rice first asked about searchable Zope documentation, then solved the problem himself by setting up a Zope documentation search site. http://www.swcp.com/~alrice/zope/ http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005190.html * Rik Hoekstra announced the formation of a usergroup for Dutch speaking Zope users called "Zope in the low countries". http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005231.html http://sw.fsw.leidenuniv.nl/cgi-bin/WebSite.exe/zopegroep * A couple programming hints for preparing for Zope 2 were posted by DC folks this week. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-June/000533.html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-June/000530.html -Amos -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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RE: [Zope] Optional date properties (Zope 1.11)
by Alexander Staubo 10 Jun '99

10 Jun '99

Okay, admittedly that is so -- but I'd still like to pass a default value. Most date/time systems have a way of specifying a "zero" date value that be tested for equality. Right now what I'm doing is testing against "1900/01/01 00:00:00.0000 GMT+1", which feels a little stupid. -- Alexander Staubo http://www.mop.no/~alex/ "`Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.'" --Douglas Adams, _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_ >-----Original Message----- >From: Brian Lloyd [mailto:Brian@digicool.com] >Sent: 10. juni 1999 16:56 >To: 'Alexander Staubo'; Zope Mailing List (E-mail) >Subject: RE: [Zope] Optional date properties (Zope 1.11) > > >> I thought I could add an optional date property to my Z >> Class' property >> sheet, but no -- it seems Zope requires that you fill in a >valid date. >> Is there a workaround? >> >> Isn't this inconsistent with other properties' behaviour, though? >> Wouldn't it be logical that an empty date value as entered in Zope's >> management screens would represent "None" or at least a >generic "zero" >> date? >> >> -- >> Alexander Staubo > >I don't think that this is necessarily inconsistent - for example, >if you try to add an int, float, etc. with no value you get: > >exceptions.ValueError: >Empty entry when integer expected > >String and string-ish fields may _seem_ to act slightly >differently in that they accept an empty value, but this >is really not so different when you consider that '' is a >valid string (in the same way that 0 would be a valid, >but "empty" integer). > > >Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com >Software Engineer 540.371.6909 >Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com >> >

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RE: [Zope] Optional date properties (Zope 1.11)
by Michel Pelletier 10 Jun '99

10 Jun '99

> -----Original Message----- > From: Alexander Staubo [mailto:alex@mop.no] > Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 11:02 AM > To: Zope Mailing List (E-mail) > Subject: RE: [Zope] Optional date properties (Zope 1.11) > > > Okay, admittedly that is so -- but I'd still like to pass a default > value. Most date/time systems have a way of specifying a "zero" date > value that be tested for equality. Right now what I'm doing is testing > against "1900/01/01 00:00:00.0000 GMT+1", which feels a little stupid. > I beleive DateTime(0) (or ZopeTime(0)) gives you an effective 'lower bound'. -Michel > -- > Alexander Staubo http://www.mop.no/~alex/ > "`Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.'" > --Douglas Adams, _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_ > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Brian Lloyd [mailto:Brian@digicool.com] > >Sent: 10. juni 1999 16:56 > >To: 'Alexander Staubo'; Zope Mailing List (E-mail) > >Subject: RE: [Zope] Optional date properties (Zope 1.11) > > > > > >> I thought I could add an optional date property to my Z > >> Class' property > >> sheet, but no -- it seems Zope requires that you fill in a > >valid date. > >> Is there a workaround? > >> > >> Isn't this inconsistent with other properties' behaviour, though? > >> Wouldn't it be logical that an empty date value as entered > in Zope's > >> management screens would represent "None" or at least a > >generic "zero" > >> date? > >> > >> -- > >> Alexander Staubo > > > >I don't think that this is necessarily inconsistent - for example, > >if you try to add an int, float, etc. with no value you get: > > > >exceptions.ValueError: > >Empty entry when integer expected > > > >String and string-ish fields may _seem_ to act slightly > >differently in that they accept an empty value, but this > >is really not so different when you consider that '' is a > >valid string (in the same way that 0 would be a valid, > >but "empty" integer). > > > > > >Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com > >Software Engineer 540.371.6909 > >Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com > >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org > http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > > (For developer-specific issues, use the companion list, > zope-dev(a)zope.org - http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) >

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RE: [Zope] Optional date properties (Zope 1.11)
by Brian Lloyd 10 Jun '99

10 Jun '99

> I thought I could add an optional date property to my Z > Class' property > sheet, but no -- it seems Zope requires that you fill in a valid date. > Is there a workaround? > > Isn't this inconsistent with other properties' behaviour, though? > Wouldn't it be logical that an empty date value as entered in Zope's > management screens would represent "None" or at least a generic "zero" > date? > > -- > Alexander Staubo I don't think that this is necessarily inconsistent - for example, if you try to add an int, float, etc. with no value you get: exceptions.ValueError: Empty entry when integer expected String and string-ish fields may _seem_ to act slightly differently in that they accept an empty value, but this is really not so different when you consider that '' is a valid string (in the same way that 0 would be a valid, but "empty" integer). Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com >

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Re: That Gadfly adapter.... *grin*
by Aaron Watters 10 Jun '99

10 Jun '99

Sean McGerty wrote: > > Bugger. I've been using the following construct with ODBC SQL dbs for years... There's >also matching examples in the Gadfly documentation, but Gadfly through Zope doesn't >seem to like it: > > :select * > :from A, B > :where A.recNum = B.recNum > > And both recNum fields are of the same type. Simple you say? I thought so. Except it's >coming back as blank and if I change the = to a <> all rows and columns are returned - >including those which an eyeball search says have matching recNum values. Which makes >one wonder if I'm missing something significant. My guess is that your eyeballs are deceiving you. Gadfly ignores declared sql types -- so if one side is the int 12 and the other side is the string "12" gadfly will print them the same and insist that they are not equal. Similar for "12 " and "12". Jim Fulton: >The version of gadfly that is used in our Zope ZGadflyDA is woefully out of date. Yes, but I've never had a complaint like this about any version of gadfly (that was a gadfly bug, modulo the missing type inforcement which is arguably a bug). -- Aaron Watters http://www.chordate.com === Partying is such sweet sorrow. -- Shakespeare (corrected)

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RE: [Zope] Long running process
by Michel Pelletier 10 Jun '99

10 Jun '99

> -----Original Message----- > From: Mikhail Terekhov [mailto:terekhov@emc.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 9:58 AM > To: zope(a)zope.org > Subject: [Zope] Long running process > > > Hi, > > Suppose I've created Zope product which has a method whith heavy > computations inside it. Is it possible to monitor execution of such > method? I.e. not to wait until it finishes, but display the current > status of computations. > Yes, but if your not using 2.0 with ZODB3, this this computation will block all other requests. -Michel > Regards > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org > http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > > (For developer-specific issues, use the companion list, > zope-dev(a)zope.org - http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) >

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ANN: Squishdot -- a slashdot-clone Zope Product
by Butch Landingin 10 Jun '99

10 Jun '99

Hi ya all, After some sanity-checking by a small group of testers, Squishdot - a slashdot-clone Zope product, is now ready to be downloaded, commented on, its tires kicked and its innards poked around. It's available at the following url: http://members.tripod.com/squishdot/index.html Some caveats, however : 1) it's very early alpha-software. It's still probably got some big bugs lying around, waiting to pounce on 'ya. I'm releasing it to a larger group hoping to get more bug reports. Start sending them to squishdot(a)yahoo.com. 2) it works best if you have Ty Sarna's TinyTable Zope product installed. It works with both the original TinyTable product (ver. 0.7.3) as well as the TinyTable beta2 (ver. 0.8.2) 3) it has been tested with Zope 1.10.2 (stable release). It can also work with later versions, including Zope2, but you need to patch your TinyTable product to make to the fancy demo options work. The following url: http://www.egroups.com/group/zope/5991.html? can give you some guidance on how to patch it (TinyTable) to work with Zope2/ZODB3. Lastly, thanks to the group of testers for testing the early release candidates of Squishdot. Your bug reports have helped me improve the product immensely. Thanks specially to Michael Bernstein for the Zope2/ZODB3 test. Best Regards, Butch Landingin butchland(a)yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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RE: [Zope] Newbie q: Name.error at startup
by Michel Pelletier 10 Jun '99

10 Jun '99

Yes, perhaps you'd like to revise WEBSERVER.txt acording to your experiences and send it to me? -Michel > -----Original Message----- > From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil@philh.org] > Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 9:32 AM > To: Michel Pelletier; Michael Bernstein; beddow01(a)globalnet.co.uk > Cc: zope(a)zope.org > Subject: Re: [Zope] Newbie q: Name.error at startup > > > Should the docs be changed to reflect this? > > Phil > phil(a)philh.org > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Michel Pelletier <michel(a)digicool.com> > To: 'Phil Harris' <phil(a)philh.org>; Michael Bernstein > <mbernstein(a)profitscape.net>; <beddow01(a)globalnet.co.uk> > Cc: <zope(a)zope.org> > Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 2:24 PM > Subject: RE: [Zope] Newbie q: Name.error at startup > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil@philh.org] > > > Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 4:13 AM > > > To: Michael Bernstein; beddow01(a)globalnet.co.uk > > > Cc: zope(a)zope.org > > > Subject: Re: [Zope] Newbie q: Name.error at startup > > > > > > > > > after installing Zope 2.0.0a1 on RedHat 5.2, Python 1.5.2 I > > > had to make a > > > slight adjustment to the RewriteRule :- > > > > > > From: > > > > > > RewriteRule ^/Zope/(.*) /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/$1 > > > [e=HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION:%1,t=application/x-httpd-cgi,l] > > > > > > > It actually works this way for pre 1.3 Apache... > > > > > > > > To: > > > > > > RewriteRule ^/Zope(.*) /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi$1 > > > [e=HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION:%1,t=application/x-httpd-cgi,l] > > > > > > > And this way for post 1.3... > > > > go figgure. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org > > http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > > > > (For developer-specific issues, use the companion list, > > zope-dev(a)zope.org - http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org > http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > > (For developer-specific issues, use the companion list, > zope-dev(a)zope.org - http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) >

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