[Zope] [ANN] ZShell 1.4

[Jorge O. Martinez]

Jerome:

Sweet! I was missing a nice CLI in Zope.

Now a couple of points:

1) Can the shell be enabled to obey a 'Return' as enter instead of using 
the mouse and click on 'Run'. That would be great, but don't know if 
it's possible. Then again, I have not installed it, only used the demo.

2) Don't know if it matters at all...but there was another Z Shell 
developed by IBM:

http://service2.boulder.ibm.com/devcon/devcon/docs/zshellwp.htm

Theirs is a shell for Unix, but it's named Z Shell too. Again, not that 
it matters to me at all, but I thought I would bring it up.

Congrats for such a nice product!

Jorge M.


Jerome Alet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm pleased to announce the long awaited new version of ZShell, the Zope
> Shell.
> 
> ZShell is an external Zope method which allows you to
> manipulate the ZODB using standard unix shell's commands
> from within Zope's Management Interface in your web
> browser.
> 
> ZShell is the swiss army's knife of the Zope admin, but care should be
> taken when giving access to ZShell to mere mortals...
> 
> ZShell is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
> with no special restrictions since the ZPL was certified as GPL compatible
> by the Free Software Foundation.
> 
> New features are :
> 
>     * Commands tid, dbconn, davlocks, printenv, setenv, unsetenv, echo
>       were added.
> 
>     * Preliminary support for variables assignments works fine : you
>       now have access to every variable from Zope's environment, plus
>       every variable from the REQUEST object (as their string
>       representations), either for reading, setting or using them.
>       The syntax is the *nix shell $ one, here's an example of what
>       you can do know :
> 
>         exec ls -la $INSTANCE_HOME/*
> 
>       another one :
> 
>         setenv --zope ZDAEMON_MANAGE=FALSE
> 
>       Needless to say that you use this feature at your own risk !
> 
> ZShell version 1.4 now has a new home at :
> 
> 	http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/
> 
> and a restricted demo can be tested online at :
> 
> 	http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/ZShell/rsh
> 
> Please be kind with this demo, any abuse will be severely punished ;-)
> 
> (Now it's time for me to do a backup, I suppose)
> 
> Any comment or help will be very welcome.
> 
> Thank you for reading.
> 
> Jerome Alet
> 
> 
> 
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