[Zope-Annce] ANN: Zope News for August 17 Released

Fri, 17 Aug 2001 04:04:07 -0400

The Zope News for August 17, 2001

by Chris McDonough (chrism@zope.com)

also available via http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZWN/ZWN-2001-08-17

Welcome to the Zope News for August 17, 2001!  The top stories this
time around include: Zope 2.4.0 released, Digital Creations pulls a
name change, two security hotfixes released, documentation updates,
ZDP alive?, EuroZope eats out, components are on the brain, Zope.org
attacked by morons, more on opening up CVS, Zope 2.5 plan published,
and the Zope "Weekly" News changes hands.

And now for something completely different...

What Is Zope?

   Zope is an open source web application server that can be used for
   managing website content, building intranets, and creating portals.
   For more information, see http://www.zope.org

   Zope is built using the Python programming language.  For Python
   information, see http://www.python.org

Front Matter

   A change of editorship has befallen the Zope News.  Zope News
   readers will sadly no longer be treated to the deadpan editorial
   stylings of Ethan "Mindlace" Fremen, whose steady hand has guided
   the ZWN since what seems like the dawn of time.  Ethan has retired
   to the Ukraine to live out the rest of his days as a feudal lord,
   and in doing so, has passed the editorial baton to me (Chris
   McDonough).  The king is dead, long live the king!

   As a part of this editorship turnover, the Zope (ahem) "Weekly" News
   is changing its name to the Zope News in light of and in reverence
   to its not-so-weekly appearance.  It will be produced biweekly from
   now on, and is meant to be released on the first and third Fridays
   of every month.  If we miss the biweeklies.. well, at least nobody
   can make fun of the name!

   The change in editorship means that the content and format of the
   News is changing slightly to include "almanac" content from Zope.org
   as well as summations of interesting Zope maillist discussions.
   Hope you enjoy!

Zope Core Development and Releases

   Zope 2.4.0 was released on July 23.  You can download it from
   http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.4.0/

   New Features include:

    - Zope 2.4 supports (and requires) Python 2.1

    - New restricted execution architecture

    - WebDAV Level 2 locking support

    - New "WebDAV Access" permission

    - A new built-in 'Authenticated' role

    - Product refresh without restart during development

    - New "Drop-in indexes" support for ZCatalog

   Read more about the new release at
   http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.4.0/zope_240_released

   Zope 2.4.1, a minor bugfix release, is reportedly due in a matter of
   days.

   Zope Corp's Zope 2.5 development plan, which showcases new features
   slated to be added to the next major Zope release, is online.  See
   http://dev.zope.org/Resources/zope_250_plan.html for the whole
   scoop.  One of the important items slated for inclusion into Zope
   2.5 is Zope Page Templates.  ZPT is a technology which allows HTML
   designers and programmers to work together to create presentation
   and logic without stepping on each others' toes.

   Relatedly, a new release of Zope Page Templates that works with
   already-existing Zopes, ZPT 1.4, is out.  See the Zope Page
   Templates Wiki for release and download details:
   http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZPT/FrontPage .

Other Development

   Phabric, a project which has as its essential goal the porting of
   Zope to Jython (the Python language as implemented in Java) has been
   announced.  The project is sponsored by a company named WebElite.
   See http://www.phabric.org for more information.

   Brian Lloyd has done a lot of work coming up with a reasonable
   proposal for better Zope web services.  See
   http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/WebServicesForZope

   Michael Bernstein is raising a ruckus on various lists with his
   SecurityJihad proposal See
   http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/SecurityJihad .

   Jeffrey Shell proposes unification of the tests that ship with the
   Zope core.
   http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/CleanUpAndUnifyCoreUnitTests

   Toby Dickinson proposes a transactional email capability.
   http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/TransactionalEmail

Security Notices

   Two security hotfixes have been released since the last Zope News.
   It's recommended you check them out and install them if necessary.

     http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/Hotfix_2001-07-25/security_alert

     http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/Hotfix_2001-08-04/security_alert

Documentation Development and Releases

   Although it was covered in the last Zope News, it bears repeating
   that the printed version of "The Zope Book" by Michel Pelletier and
   Amos Latteier became widely available in bookstores not too long
   ago.  This is the dead-tree version of the content available from
   http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/ZB/ .
   If you buy it, maybe Michel will be able to afford a laptop on which
   he can run a better window manager than twm. ;-)

   The Zope Developer's Guide and Zope Book have been updated to match
   the features of Zope 2.4.  See http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZDG
   and http://www.zope.org/Members/Amos/ZopeBook24 .  Thanks to Amos
   Latteier and Michel Pelletier.

   The Zope Documentation Project (http://zdp.zope.org) seems to have
   stalled almost entirely.  The last update to any of its content
   appears to have been made in May!  Egads.  Alestay ontentcay
   entralcay!

News Summaries

   Erik Enge's zope-dev maillist summary for July was relased.  It's
   available at http://nittin.net/erik/summaries/2001-08-01 .

   Seb Bacon's CMF Week In Review #6 for the week ending July 27 is
   available from http://cmf.zope.org/news/weekly/20010727.

Digital Creations Goings-On

   Digital Creations, Inc. (the producer of Zope) has changed it's name
   to "Zope Corporation".  There is a new website at
   http://www.zope.com accordingly.  The name change is intended to
   ensure that Zope (the application) and its primary financial backer
   are more closely associated with each other in the marketplace.  See
   http://www.zope.com/News/PressReleases/DC2ZC for more info.

   A components architecture chat was had with Jim Fulton and Shane
   Hathaway from DC/ZC with the rest of the Zope community on August
   3rd.  A log of the chat is available at

http://irclogs.espnow.com/zope-logs/show_file.php?logfile=Aug_03_2001.log.
   For the most part, Shane and Jim explained the content in the Zope
   Component Architecture wiki (see

http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/FrontPage),
   which really essentially just turns out to be a set of best
   practices to use when developing Zope applications, as well as a set
   of enabling technologies.

   Ken Manheimer continues to plug away at opening up the CVS
   repository to contibutions external to and unmediated by Zope
   Corporation.  A record of his travails is available at

http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZopeCVSMigration/CurrentStatus.

EuroZope Goings-On

   This happened a while back (a whole month ago!), but was neglected
   mention in any prior Zope News.  The EuroZope crew
   (http://www.eurozope.org ) had a barbeque in Berlin.  There are
   pictures.  They are mostly incriminating, and they feature about
   four thousand shots of Noa Harvey, which is fine with me.  See
   http://adequat.c2a.fr/presentation/ZopeBerlin for the pics.  Also a
   great shot of Michel Pelletier somewhere in here.

Zope News Sightings

   A slightly "trollish" article at
   http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/14/2327248&mode=flat about
   web services in relation to open source software posted on
   LinuxToday and Slashdot generated lots of heat within those
   communities.  Lots of (sane) people argued within the respective
   site talkback threads that "the answer is Zope."

   A bit of Linux Weekly News coverage at
   http://lwn.net/2001/features/oreilly2001/ of the latest O'Reilly
   Open Source conference deals with presentations given by Zope Corp
   folks.  A bad picture of Tres Seaver and a good picture of Jim
   Fulton are contained within.

   Because I'm a Zopeaholic, I like to visit the Netcraft website
   (http://www.netcraft.net) every month to see how many folks are
   using Zope.  Though their numbers don't take into account all the
   Zope sites behind Apache or other web or proxy servers, it's
   somewhat interesting all the same.  See
   http://www.netcraft.com/survey/Reports/200107/byserver/Zope/index.html
   for Zope stats for July.

Zope.org Meta Matter

   A small collection of morons is busy abusing Zope.org's "openness".
   This group uses Zope.org as a "warez" repository, creating throwaway
   accounts and storing large files in the various Member areas
   associated with these accounts.  The large files are then downloaded
   many times by other morons.  All of this activity takes up lots of
   disk space, bandwidth and other system resources.  The Zope.org
   staff is busy fending off the onslaught.  And they say open source
   software doesn't cost money!  [;-)]

   Webalizer traffic statistics output for the systems that make up
   www.zope.org is available at http://ns1.zope.org:82/

Zope.org Almanac

   The Zope.org Almanac lists select new or updated content spotted on
   Zope.org since the last release of the Zope News.

   Selected News Items

     Zope Training in Berlin, Germany - Paris, and Washington D.C.

       http://www.zope.org/Members/beehive/berlindcparis.html

     ZWiki 0.9.4 released

       http://www.zope.org/Members/simon/ZWiki/ZWiki-0.9.4-released

     Monthly DC Zope User Group Meeting

       http://www.zope.org/Members/chrisa/aug21zpug

   New Or Updated How-Tos

     Virtual Hosts via Apache (but nearly all content in Zope)

       http://www.zope.org/Members/mwr/VHosts_With_Zope_Default

     SSL Certificate Authentication

       http://www.zope.org/Members/zhivago/SSLCertAuth/How-To_SSLCertAuth

     How to compile/link DynPersist on win32 using MS VC 6.0

       http://www.zope.org/Members/isalsberg/PTK/How-To_DynPersist

     Zope and SSL

       http://www.zope.org/Members/Ioan/ZopeSSL

     METAL for Beginners

       http://www.zope.org/Members/tone/METAL

     Medusa Status HowTo

       http://www.zope.org/Members/mvalente/medusastatus

     How to create boring CMF content based on the filesystem

       http://www.zope.org/Members/eenge/CMFBoringContent

     A very minimal Product

       http://www.zope.org/Members/maxm/HowTo/minimal_01

     Migrate from ZPyGreSQL database adaptor to Psycopg PostgreSQL adaptor

       http://www.zope.org/Members/aho/oio_utils/ZPyGreSQL_to_ZPsycopg

   Selected New Or Updated Software Products

     Photo

       http://www.zope.org/Members/Drew/Photo

     Updated FScounter

       http://www.zope.org/Members/bowerymarc/FScounter

     PictureLink

       http://www.zope.org/Members/mavron/PictureLink

     Simple XML Searcher

       http://www.zope.org/Members/cabbie/SimpleXmlSearcher

     A RAM Cache Manager that ages objects

       http://www.zope.org/Members/xgwsbae/RamCacheManagerWithAge

     ReplaceSupport

       http://www.zope.org/Members/shh/ReplaceSupport

     ZODB-CORBA Connection

       http://www.zope.org/Members/jheintz/ZODB_CORBA_Connection

     MySQL user folder

       http://www.zope.org/Members/vladap/mysqlUserFolder

     CallableFolder

       http://www.zope.org/Members/shh/CallableFolder

     SessionDataContainerBase

       http://www.zope.org/Members/shai/SessionDataContainerBase

     Oracle-based Session Data Container

       http://www.zope.org/Members/shai/SqlSDC

     Xron Scheduled Method Dispatcher

       http://www.zope.org/Members/lstaffor/Xron

     Binary release of Zope-2.4.0 for MOSX

       http://www.zope.org/Members/sspickle/Zope-2.4.0-MOSX-ppc

     Formulator

       http://www.zope.org/Members/faassen/Formulator

     Portail Pour Tous (Portal For All)

       http://www.zope.org/Members/dgeorgieff/popoto

     CMF Complex Document

       http://www.zope.org/Members/snej/CMFComplexDocument

     Product View

       http://www.zope.org/Members/srichter/Products/ProductView

     FormsTool for CMF

       http://www.zope.org/Members/jack-e/CMFFormsTool

     Zope/Java-Based Telnet/SSH

       http://www.zope.org/Members/dshaw/ZJavaTelnetSSH

     HTMLDocument

       http://www.zope.org/Members/sf/HTMLDocument

     Zope ODBC Database Adapter

       http://www.zope.org/Products/DA/ZODBCDA

     Document Library

       http://www.zope.org/Members/Kaivo/DocumentLibrary

     ZOracleDA

       http://www.zope.org/Members/zigg/ZOracleDA-zigg

     SOAP Methods as external methods

       http://www.zope.org/Members/xgwsbae/SOAPMethod

     Tamino-Zope

       http://www.zope.org/Members/pbolle/Tamino-Zope

     DCOracle2

       http://www.zope.org/Members/matt/dco2

     Site Tracker Product

       http://www.zope.org/Members/peterbe/SiteTrackerProduct

     CMF-based Address Book

       http://www.zope.org/Members/natsukashi/Products/CMFUsrManOrg

     Caches documents via a mod_perl module for Apache

       http://www.zope.org/Members/xgwsbae/ZopeProxyCacheManager

Zope@Zope.org Mail List Summary for August 1- 17

   People can't get enough of drinking from the firehose that is the
   Zope@Zope.org mail list!  There've been roughly 3000 messages posted
   since July 20, 2001 (the day of the last Zope News).  Interesting
   messages and threads include those below.

     A thread about Java applets to be used as content editors

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096655.html

     Peter Bengtsson explains how to use _.getitem

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096658.html

     bak@kedai and Olivier Bleutgen praise mod_gzip in concert with Zope

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096661.html

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096664.html

     Steve Spicklemire and I come to the rescue for Gerd Zeif with
     _SUPPRESS_ACCESSRULE and other things to do when you get locked out

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096670.html

     The answer to the above shocks and dismays Shai Berger

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096748.html

     J Cameron Cooper explains how to install CMF under Windows

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096687.html

     A long-lasting and lively discussion about using Zope for nonprofits

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096690.html

     Jcc also discusses the emergency user

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096695.html

     Timothy Wilson discourses on <!--#name--> vs <dtml-name> DTML syntax

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096714.html

     Andreas Jung explains how to grab content from an HTTP server

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096733.html

     David Lutz asks advice writing a comparison between Zope and Notes

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096760.html

     An intensely boring argument breaks out about Linux large file support

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096816.html

     I attempt to evade questions about Zope Version objects

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096869.html

     David Lambert asks questions about namespaces and receives answers

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096868.html

     Terry McKenna attempts to get ZSQL working with PostgreSQL

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096891.html

     Tommy Johnson get answers about publisher method marshalling

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096923.html

     Jcc answers Michael Montagne's question about security by 
recommending local roles

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096773.html

     Dieter Maurer amazingly spots a syntax error that Guido might have
     had trouble spotting  [;-)]

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/096957.html

     A thread about distinguishing Zope (the company) from Zope (the
     software and associated community) arises

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/097025.html

     Jens Vagelpohl explains how to prevent TCP access to Zope

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/097036.html

     I describe when and how to use the profiler

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/097131.html

     Tino helps mixo out with groups/roles

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/097208.html

     Tino helps out Artur Mozdzynski with cookies

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/097212.html

     The orphan option default value (3) to dtml-in is crucified

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/097212.html

     Tino helps Todd Loomis turn a set of checkboxes on a form into a list

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/097405.html

     Dieter laments that more people don't use ZopeFind to search a Zope

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/097426.html

     Steve Spicklemire helps Fritz Mesedilla find docs on Structured Text

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/097463.html

     Jcc gets jiggy explaining how to connect MS Access and Zope

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/097516.html

     Casey Duncan answers questions about creating a disk-based Zope product

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/097585.html

     Jason Witt claims Zope is SLAB on Solaris, and obtains confirmatory
     testimonials

     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2001-August/097561.html

End Matter

   The opinions expressed in Zope News are solely the authors', and not
   the opinions of Zope Corporation, The Zope Community at-large, or
   the Spanish Inquisition.

   If you or your company are doing something interesting with Zope,
   please submit a blurb to Zope Weekly News for possible inclusion by
   emailing Chris McDonough (mailto:chrism@zope.com ).

   For prior editions of the Zope News, see
   http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZWN/

-- 
Chris McDonough                    Zope Corporation
http://www.zope.org             http://www.zope.com
"Killing hundreds of birds with thousands of stones"