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- PostgreSQL DA Release
by Maurice Davis 28 Feb '99

28 Feb '99

I've posted a Zope PostgreSQL Database Adapter to the Contrib area of the Zope site. It uses the PyGreSQL-2.2 extension module. Source for the module and sample data are included in the tar file. Please send me any suggested improvements and bug reports. Maury

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How well does Ztables/Confera scale up?
by Butch Landingin 28 Feb '99

28 Feb '99

I have this project that I'm planning to use Zope on (it's still in the evaluation stage) and I just started looking at Confera (which uses pieces of ZTables/Tabula) which is has some of the things I need (specifically, search-text capabilities) -- I'll have to hack it a bit to simplify it (I just need to be able to add/edit/delete records into a DB) - but my concern is with how well it scales up (the database is not actually that big -- it's about 4-6 Megabytes in size, 500 records -- yep, that means each record is a pretty big text file)). So I was wondering if I could get some feedback about this (especially from people who have used or are using Confera/ZTables/Tabula)-- if you have database sizes bigger than this -- about the software(OS/webserver)/hardware (memory/CPU/HD) requirements, whether it's on the internet or not, etc. I know I've seen some Zope sites handle volumes bigger than this but I don't know if they're using Tabula for this kind of volume or just some SQL database (which is also an alternative I'm looking at -- but I won't have the text search capabilities unless I use some DB-specific functions and it won't be platform-independent). Thanks in advance, 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] ZServerFTP -- here's the code
by Robin Dunn 27 Feb '99

27 Feb '99

Thanks. That did the trick. HomeSite is still a bit quirky on FTP with ZServer, but it works in general. -- Robin Dunn robin(a)AllDunn.com http://AllDunn.com/robin/ http://AllDunn.com/wxPython/ Check it out! Try http://AllDunn.com/laughworks/ for a good laugh. -----Original Message----- From: Brad Clements <bkc(a)murkworks.com> To: Amos Latteier <amos(a)aracnet.com> Cc: zope(a)zope.org <zope(a)zope.org> Date: Saturday, February 27, 1999 1:19 PM Subject: Re: [Zope] ZServerFTP -- here's the code On 27 Feb 99, at 13:32, Amos Latteier wrote: > At 12:27 AM 2/27/99 -0800, you wrote: > >HomeSite's FTP mode is apparently trying to use the FTP commands "MODE S" > >and "STRU F" to which ZServer is responding with a "500 '%s': command not > >understood." % command and then HomeSite bails out and never fetches any > >directory listings or anything. > > > >Is there any intent to support these commands? It sure would be nice. > > Right now we are trying not to add a lot of FTP commands to ZServer that > Medusa's FTP server doesn't already support, and it seems that Medusa > doesn't support these right now. > > I'll look into these commands and if they are easy to implement and make > sense for Zope, I'll try. Of course, patches are always welcome. > FYI, these can be treated as NOOPs and just ack em with a 200 code. MODE S (stream) is the default anyway STRU F (file) is also the default. See ... streaming file of bytes == default FTP mode anyway. Accept mode, if it's == S return 200 OK, else 500 not implemented. In fact, here's the code for ftp_server.py def cmd_stru (self, line): 'specify file structure' # only F supported t = string.lower (line[1]) if t <> 'f': self.command_not_understood (string.join (line)) else: self.respond ('200 STRU set to %s.' % t) def cmd_mode (self, line): 'specify file mode' # only S supported t = string.lower (line[1]) if t <> 's': self.command_not_understood (string.join (line)) else: self.respond ('200 mode set to %s.' % t) Add around line 329.. Tested and approved.. ;-) Brad Clements, bkc(a)murkworks.com (315)268-1000 http://www.murkworks.com (315)268-9812 Fax netmeeting: ils://ils.murkworks.com ICQ: 14856937 _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope

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RE: [Zope] eMarket product
by Theodore Patrick 27 Feb '99

27 Feb '99

Mike, CLEAR, but... <DOCUMENTATION> DOCUMENTATION MAKES SOFTWARE BETTER ESPECIALLY OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE(as you probably know). BUILDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF OTHERS REQUIRES UNDERSTANDING AND UNDERSTANDING REQUIRES DOCUMENTATION OR ALLOT OF TIME. SAVING TIME AND GETTING BETTER SOFTWARE ARE IN EVERYONE'S BEST INTEREST. I understand that contributed products are not affiliated with Digital Creations, and I understand that people are going to make them(That is ONE BIG BENEFIT of OPEN SOURCE, isn't it?). So the individuals should more openly contribute to the documentation effort. If you post something document it. OTHERS will use it, modify it, and document their changes. We all win. </DOCUMENTATION> My apologies for replying to you by <MISTAKE>, Michel. I will do better next time. Thanks, Theodore E. Patrick email: tpatrick(a)indigonetworks.com <mailto:tpatrick@indigonetworks.com> phone: 615-777-0070 ext.125 Indigo Networks - The Ultimate Choice In Who Sees You. http://www.indigonetworks.com

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RE: [Zope] eMarket product
by Michel Pelletier 27 Feb '99

27 Feb '99

> -----Original Message----- > From: Theodore Patrick [mailto:tpatrick@IndigoNetworks.com] > Sent: Saturday, February 27, 1999 2:22 PM > To: 'Michel Pelletier'; Steve Spicklemire; zope(a)zope.org > Subject: RE: [Zope] eMarket product > > > ANY DOCUMENTATION???? > Hmm... you quoted my reply to the original message in your message, so I just want to clarify to you that this is a Product written by Steve Spicklemire and I was just commenting on it. It is *NOT* a product of Digital Creations. If Steve wishes to document it I'm sure he will, but, as *he* said in his original message: > This is an alpha quality-version 'starter' of an EMarket Product. <personal opinion> So a word of warning to *everyone* on the list who might think to d/l and install products announced on the list: When dealing with initial releases of alpha quality software, knowing what the product is going to do by *reading the source* is much more important than expecting documentation to tell you about it. If you don't have the time or the Zope Zen level high enough to read the source and grok it's inner workings from that, *don't install the product*; wait a little while for a more stable or beta quality release or until some discussion is generated about it. If you just offhandedly install every product you hear about, and it corrupts your database or lights your cdrom drive on fire, you have no one to blame but yourself. </personal opinion> -Michel

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RE: [Zope] eMarket product
by Theodore Patrick 27 Feb '99

27 Feb '99

ANY DOCUMENTATION???? -----Original Message----- From: Michel Pelletier [mailto:michel@digicool.com] Sent: Saturday, February 27, 1999 12:21 PM To: Steve Spicklemire; zope(a)zope.org Subject: RE: [Zope] eMarket product > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Spicklemire [mailto:steve@acer.spvi.com] > Sent: Saturday, February 27, 1999 12:35 PM > To: zope(a)zope.org > Subject: [Zope] eMarket product > > > > This is an alpha quality-version 'starter' of an EMarket Product. I > have lots of work to do to 'process' purchases, but the basic idea is > there.. and it shows one possible way to use Zope Folders as a super > class for more or less generic folderish objects. I'm doing this as a > way to learn about Zope, but also produce something that might be > useful for me (and maybe serve as a beginning example to someone > else!). Suggestions, patches, etc etc.. welcome. > Cool! I was just sniffing the properties problem when you posted your workaround. We'll get that fixed in a jiffy, but you won't see it till the next release which might be a while. Zope Product developers should be using the Zope from the public CVS which is Ken's baby, and from what I understand on it's way soon! (I could be wrong, Ken might smack me for making promises I can't keep) Your Product is cool. Let me give you some 'bug reports' for you next release: Put a README.txt file in the Package and Zope will sniff it and put a link to it in the Product Managment area A version.txt file will also get sniffed and placed into the Product Management area. The format is ProductName-x-y-z on one line A suggestion is to ask for the eMarketMailhost settings in the manage_addEMarketForm instead of sniffing the localhost and assuming that the SMTP server is the same (this one bit me, the machine I installed eMarket on a machine with a drainbamaged sendmail). And, what is it? eMarket or EMarket? > Good Luck! > -steve Thanks! More products all the time...we really need a central product repository of some kind. sigh. -Michel > > _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope

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Re: [Zope] Splitting the Zope mailling
by Michael Olivier 27 Feb '99

27 Feb '99

> > >>I would spilt it a bit differently, to at least 3 lists: > >> > >>zope(a)zope.org dtml(a)zope.org zope-dev(a)zope.org > This looks great to me. I will likely subscribe to more than one of the lists (as I do for postgres), but control and filtering are really important to me to manage the volume. Right now it's hard as a beginner to understand what subjects are about what areas (dtml, devel, etc.) ... The subject markings, e.g., [SERVER], [EXCEPTIONS], whatever, would also be helpful, but I'm too new here to know what the most common several would be to standardize on. --Michael _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Incoming mail, scheduling
by Eric Kidd 27 Feb '99

27 Feb '99

Zope is really great! I've been demoing it to various folks who need websites, and there's been quite a bit of drooling going on. Several of my product ideas, though, need missing functionality. I'd love to be able to deliver mail to the Zope database (for bug trackers and such) and to schedule periodic tasks. Is anybody in the Zope community working on these projects right now? Cheers, Eric

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RE: [Zope] eMarket product
by Michel Pelletier 27 Feb '99

27 Feb '99

> -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Spicklemire [mailto:steve@acer.spvi.com] > Sent: Saturday, February 27, 1999 12:35 PM > To: zope(a)zope.org > Subject: [Zope] eMarket product > > > > This is an alpha quality-version 'starter' of an EMarket Product. I > have lots of work to do to 'process' purchases, but the basic idea is > there.. and it shows one possible way to use Zope Folders as a super > class for more or less generic folderish objects. I'm doing this as a > way to learn about Zope, but also produce something that might be > useful for me (and maybe serve as a beginning example to someone > else!). Suggestions, patches, etc etc.. welcome. > Cool! I was just sniffing the properties problem when you posted your workaround. We'll get that fixed in a jiffy, but you won't see it till the next release which might be a while. Zope Product developers should be using the Zope from the public CVS which is Ken's baby, and from what I understand on it's way soon! (I could be wrong, Ken might smack me for making promises I can't keep) Your Product is cool. Let me give you some 'bug reports' for you next release: Put a README.txt file in the Package and Zope will sniff it and put a link to it in the Product Managment area A version.txt file will also get sniffed and placed into the Product Management area. The format is ProductName-x-y-z on one line A suggestion is to ask for the eMarketMailhost settings in the manage_addEMarketForm instead of sniffing the localhost and assuming that the SMTP server is the same (this one bit me, the machine I installed eMarket on a machine with a drainbamaged sendmail). And, what is it? eMarket or EMarket? > Good Luck! > -steve Thanks! More products all the time...we really need a central product repository of some kind. sigh. -Michel > >

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eMarket product
by Steve Spicklemire 27 Feb '99

27 Feb '99

This is an alpha quality-version 'starter' of an EMarket Product. I have lots of work to do to 'process' purchases, but the basic idea is there.. and it shows one possible way to use Zope Folders as a super class for more or less generic folderish objects. I'm doing this as a way to learn about Zope, but also produce something that might be useful for me (and maybe serve as a beginning example to someone else!). Suggestions, patches, etc etc.. welcome. Good Luck! -steve

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