G'day,
Zope Weekly News is a digest of some of the useful and interesting
events which have occurred on the various Zope mailing lists and the
Zope.org site. It is published each Wednesday evening.
Any opinions contained in the Zope Weekly News are those of the
chronicler exclusively.
Announcements
* Amos Lattier has started a series at XML.com about XML and Zope.
The first article is available.
http://www.xml.com/pub/1999/12/zope/index.html
* Beehive has translated additional Zope How-Tos into German.
German speaking Zope users are welcome to contribute to the
effort.
http://www.zope.de/bibliothek/How-Tos/http://www.zope.de
* The new Zope Front Door has been installed. Comments to
webmaster(a)zope.org are encouraged.
http://www.zope.org
* Lutz Ehrlich <Lutz.Ehrlich(a)EMBL-Heidelberg.de> has launched the
German Python/Zope network.
"It is meant to be a lightweight and efficient means to form a
network of freelancers able to provide Python/Zope services in
the German speaking part of the world."
http://www.python-netzwerk.de
* A mailing list has been set up to support the Zope Mozilla
Initiative. It's address is zope-mozilla(a)zope.org.
http://www.zope.org/Resources/Mozilla
New Products
* "4am" posted a bash script to automate generating distribution
archives of Python Products.
http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/packProduct
Updates
* The Z SQL Methods User's Guide has been updated.
http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Guides/ZSQL
* "4am" has updated SiteAccess to work with Zope 2.1.
http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/SiteAccessZope.org items
* "limi" posted the 100th How-To, which is about using
multiple-selection and selection properties.
http://www.zope.org/Members/limi/multipleselection-howto
* "dparker" submitted a tip for editing Zope resources with the
editor of your choice under KDE, and suggests that the same
technique may work for other environments.
http://www.zope.org/Members/dparker/alternativeeditors
* "sfs" has contributed a helpful document on forcing clients to use
HTTPS when using the management interface.
http://www.zope.org/Members/sfs/Apache/SSL/forcehttpsformanage
Notable Discussions
* chas <panda(a)skinnyhippo.com> started a discussion titled
"Linux/Redhat advice : RPMs vs Src for Zope development ?" "chas"
is new to Linux, coming from a FreeBSD background, and he in
curious about the relative merits of installing from the sources
versus installing with an RPM.
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-December/016006.html
* Christopher Petrilli <petrilli(a)digicool.com> posted to zope-dev
to let everyone know that Even Simpson's Python Methods have been
rolled in to Zope, and are now committed to the CVS. Some
discussion of Python Methods followed.
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-December/002735.html
* Dave Parker <dparker(a)globalcrossing.com> complained that his
namespace kept disappearing when he called a DTML Method from a
DTML Method. Jim Fulton and others wrote in explaining what was
happening, why it happened, and how to pass values to a DTML
Method without losing your namespace. A lot of very useful
information, sure to cause many a forehead-slap. Jim also
mentions that you may not have to jump through this particular
hoop too much longer.
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-December/002715.html
* Andrew Hall <aah(a)impaq.net.au> has his FastCGI/Zope setup
troubleshot by the mailing list. An error in the documentation
(doc/WEBSERVER.txt) is pointed out! (Corrected in the CVS.)
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-December/015882.html
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Mike Pelletier.
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We know that the Python conference isn't until the next millennium.
You have exactly two weeks left to register and qualify for the early
bird registration. Since most of that time most people are taking off
for the holidays, it's really NOW OR NEVER! If you haven't registered
and paid by January 5, you will paying full price... So, be smart and
register NOW. Also don't forget to book your hotel room by January 3.
Some highlights from the conference program:
- 8 tutorials on topics ranging from JPython to Fnorb;
- a keynote by Open Source evangelist Eric Raymond;
- another by Randy Pausch, father of the Alice Virtual Reality project;
- a separate track for Zope developers and users;
- live demonstrations of important Python applications;
- refereed papers, and short talks on current topics;
- a developers' day where the feature set of Python 2.0 is worked out.
Our motto, due to Bruce Eckel, is: "Life's better without braces."
Come and join us at the Key Bridge Marriott in Rosslyn (across the
bridge from Georgetown), January 24-27 in 2000. Make the Python
conference the first conference you attend in the new millennium!
The early bird registration deadline is January 5. More info:
http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/
The program is now complete with the titles of all presentations.
There is still space in the demo session and in the short talks
session.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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This announcement marks the release of MetaKit as open source.
MetaKit is an efficient database library with a small footprint.
It's a cross between flat-file, relational databases, and OODBMS.
Keywords: structured storage, transacted commit, load on-demand,
portable, C++, Python, Tcl, scripting, instant schema evolution.
RELEASE NOTES: The new release is nearly identical to the recent
1.9 release, with a few minor tweaks, and updated documentation.
The change is that source code is now freely available to anyone.
License: X/MIT-style open source. Commercial support is provided
though an Enterprise License from Equi4 Software, see the website.
MetaKit 2.0 embodies the evolution of 3 years of development and
production use, and is considered a pretty stable release. Both
the Python and the Tcl extension interfaces have been adjusted to
use the new 2.0 release number, and are now part of the core.
The MetaKit home page is at: http://www.equi4.com/metakit/ with
links to documentation, source code, all license details, mailing
lists (moved), defect tracking (new), and a CVS repository (new).
The new services are hosted on the SourceForge Open Source site.
Binary builds of this library are currently available by FTP for:
Unix (AIX, Digital Unix, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris), Windows (9X/NT),
and Macintosh (PPC). Older release builds are available for VMS,
BeOS, SGI, and a few others (all the way down to 16-bit MS-DOS).
Both old and new releases remain 100% supported by yours truly.
The bug database is there to report problems, and CVS is there to
get fixes and patches back out to everyone - so let's use them!
As the 2.0 version number indicates, this also marks the start of
a new range of MetaKit releases. Having successfully proven the
concepts that underpin MetaKit over the last several years, it is
time to open up the system to all developers who are interested
in simplicity and raw performance. Over the coming months, I'll
be making a substantial number of new contributions, while at the
same time inviting every interested developer to discuss ideas to
make MetaKit even faster, more scalable, multi-user / -threading,
and binding it to many more languages and platforms. If there is
a need, separate "stable" & "bleeding-edge" areas will be set up.
The website, code, and documentation are currently being adjusted
to iron out all wrinkles of these changes. Hello, DBMS world :)
-- Jean-Claude Wippler <jcw(a)equi4.com>
<P><A HREF="http://www.equi4.com/metakit/">MetaKit 2.0</A> -
open-source release of the powerful MetaKit 2.0 database
library for flexible structured storage; features Python
bindings. (15-Dec-99)
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We know that the Python conference isn't until the next millennium.
You still have THREE WHOLE WEEKS to register and qualify for the early
bird registration. However, at least one of those weeks you will have
partying and family gatherings on your mind, and when that week's
over, recovery from the partying and gathering will probably take
priority over registering for the conference, and as a result you
might be PAYING FULL PRICE! (The horror!) That is, if your payment
isn't received by January 5, 2000.
So, be smart and register *before* Christmas. That's still more than
ten days -- plenty of time to make travel arrangements, register for
the conference, and present your boss with the bill (in that order).
Our motto, due to Bruce Eckel, is: "Life's better without braces."
Some highlights from the conference program:
- 8 tutorials on topics ranging from JPython to Fnorb;
- a keynote by Open Source evangelist Eric Raymond;
- another by Randy Pausch, father of the Alice Virtual Reality project;
- a separate track for Zope developers and users;
- live demonstrations of important Python applications;
- refereed papers, and short talks on current topics;
- a developers' day where the feature set of Python 2.0 is worked out.
Come and join us at the Key Bridge Marriott in Rosslyn (across the
bridge from Georgetown), January 24-27 in 2000. Make the Python
conference the first conference you attend in the new millennium!
The early bird registration deadline is January 5. More info:
http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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Hi all,
Zope 2.1.1 has been released. This is a bug-fix release
that includes fixes for better handling of multiple-write
conflicts, undo-related problems and problems that prevented
certain third-party Zope products such as Squishdot from
working. For more information, see the file CHANGES.txt
in the doc directory of the distribution.
As always, you can get the 2.1.1 release from Zope.org:
http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.1.1/
Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com
Software Engineer 540.371.6909
Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com
<P><A HREF="http://www.zope.org/">Zope 2.1.1</A> - a free, open
source web application platform used for building high-performance,
dynamic web sites; bug-fix update. (14-Dec-99)
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pxDislin is an object-oriented wrapper around the DISLIN plotting
library. DISLIN is a powerful and flexible multiplatform (Win32,
Unix, Linux, etc.) library designed for displaying scientific data.
DISLIN's author, Helmut Michels, has made available a DISLIN plotting
extension for the Python programming language (see
http://www.linmpi.mpg.de/dislin/ for more details).
pxDislin provides a set of classes which represent various aspects
of DISLIN plots, as well as providing some easy to use classes for
creating commonly used plot formats (e.g. scatter plots, histograms,
3-D surface plots). A major goal in designing the library was to
facilitate interactive data exploration and plot creation.
Documentation and a demo program are included. The library has
been tested on WinNT and FreeBSD, but I anticipate that it should work
on any platform which can make use of Python, NumPy, and the DISLIN
python extensions.
Feedback, comments, and critique are gladly accepted (email:
paul.magwene(a)yale.edu).
VERSION:
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This is release 0.1 of pxDislin.
URL:
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You can find pxDislin at:
http://pantheon.yale.edu/~pmm34/pxdislin.html
Paul Magwene
paul.magwene(a)yale.edu
<P><A HREF="http://pantheon.yale.edu/~pmm34/pxdislin.html">pxDislin
0.1</A> - a set of object-oriented classes which work with the DISLIN
Python extension (for displaying scientific data). (13-Dec-99)
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HI!
I would like to announce a new version of web2ldap (formerly known as
ldap-client-cgi.py), a full-featured LDAPv2 client written in Python
designed to run as a CGI-BIN under the control of a WWW server.
It's available for free (GPL) from
http://sites.inka.de/ms/python/web2ldap/
There's also a working demo there.
I would like to encourage people to give feedback about the usability
of this program.
Ciao, Michael.
Changes since 0.5.2:
some minor bugfixes:
- deal with DNs containing spaces between DN components
- fixed behaviour of accidently case sensitive attribute name handling
in addform/modifyform
<P><A HREF="http://sites.inka.de/ms/python/web2ldap/">web2ldap.py
0.5.3</A> - LDAP web client; minor bugfix update. (12-Dec-99)
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Announcing (again)
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Translation of Python Tutorial (GvR) into Spanish
Guía de aprendizaje de Python (GvR) traducida al castellano
<P><A HREF="http://www.zope.org/Members/rapto/tut">Guía de aprendizaje de
Python 1.5.2</A> - traducida al castellano, en PDF, HTML, PS. (10-Dec-99)
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