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.

New Products and Announcements

• "jwashin" released ZRTChat, an entirely ZClass real-time chat object. No java or javascript!

  http://www.zope.org/Members/jwashin/ZRTChat

• The new Sybase Database Adapter has been released. It has been completely rewritten.

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

• "tseaver" submitted an internationalisation ZClass. It contains a set of translations of a document and serves the correct language to the user.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/tseaver/ZI18N

• "Zen" has released GenericUserFolder, which seems to allow you to mix and match authentication methods to suit your needs. GenericUserFolder is very much beta, and not to be used on production sites.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/Zen/GenericUserFolder

Updates

• "anthony" released an update of his SQL Session product. SQL Session provides SQL database-based session objects, keyed to browser cookies. Unlike the previous update, this one does not break existing SQL Session objects.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/anthony/software/SQLSession

• "rossl" has updated the LDAPAdapter product, which allows you to authenticate web users with an LDAP server.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/rossl/LDAPAdapter_0.7

• Itmar Shtull-Trauring has released v0.3 of ZCache.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/itamar/ZCache

Zope.org items

• "AlexR" posted a How-To about using ZCatalog's keyword index facility. A keyword index is something halfway between a text index and a field index-- it is a list of values which are treated atomically.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/AlexR/KeywordIndexes

• Brian Lloyd has submitted a patch for Apache which allows you to use WebDAV with Zope through Apache. Normally Apache intercepts the HTTP OPTIONS request. With this patch, the request gets passed to Zope so it can offer WebDAV services.

  http://www.zope.org/Members/Brian/Misc/mod_cgi_webdav_patch.html

• "Earthtone" wrote a mini-review of the Zope coverage in a new book, "The Quick Python Book".

  http://www.zope.org/Members/Earthtone/news-zope_chapter

Notable Discussions

• Sachin Shah wrote in to suggest that the Properties management view should include each of the property's type. Martijn Faassen agreed and suggested including the ability to change property types. Evan Simpson pulled a property-type-changer out of a hat! Oleg Broytmann suggests cut/copy/paste support.

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014379.html

• "Chas" asked for advice selecting an OS for his Zope server. He will be using it with an Oracle server on another machine, and so the operating system must be supported by Oracle. Suggestions so far: Linux and Sun Sparc and FreeBSD with Linux emulation. No one has verified whether FreeBSD, Chas's preference, would actually work.

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014366.html

• "Milt" wants to move a Zope server from a Windows machine to a Linux one. He solicited advice for accomplishing this. Solution: copy var/Data.fs from one machine to the other. It is platform-independent.

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014359.html

• Ross Boylan gives us a heads-up on a bug in Zope Products. It seems that a failure in Product registration (ie, in the Product's __init__.py file) can cause Zope to misreport an old error, leading to the occasional headache.

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014340.html

• Alexander Limi is understandably concerned about sending cleartext passwords over the Internet when authenticating Zope users and managers. Christopher Petrilli offers some solutions.

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014339.html

• Jason Jone kicked off a brisk discussion of FastCGI and Zope. The verdict: to get full functionality, you have to use a snapshot (prerelease) of version 2.2.3 of mod_fastcgi. Using prerelease code made some people uncomfortable. This will change when 2.2.3-final is released.

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014254.html See also, doc/WEBSERVER.txt of the Zope CVS

-- Mike Pelletier.