Tired of the Web? Talk to zope in many ways. Who has the biggest zope? the longest? Zope 2.4 alpha coming soon, and more Zope.org information in this week's Zope Weekly News (10 min under the wire)

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Zope in the News

The Canadian Government, in its Smart Communities project, calls Zope a robust, portable and completely browser-based application development framework

1. ways to talk to your Zope

   There has been discussion for years about how to talk with zope and the ZODB in ways other than the standard web interface. Not being just sound and fury, there are several products out there that let you approach your zope in different and interesting ways:

   Programming

   • ZCVSMixin

     ZCVSMixin allows the management of zope objects in CVS. it recently had a beta release. The basic idea is that you designate folders to be managed via CVS and can then use your usual CVS tools to manage them!

   • Wing IDE + Zope

     The Wing IDE, a visible-source, extremely reasonably priced IDE environment for Python, works well with Zope. Essentially, you import a "wingdbstub" in your z2.py and can then set breakpoints in the zope code/your code, and step through a live, running zope to see how your code is behaving.

   Management

   • ZShell

     Mentioned last week, ZShell gives you a web-based CLI interface to your zope. Under heavy development, the most recent version gives you a "grep" command that can not only do regular-expression searches, but also replacements.

   • gnope A very alpha GNOME client for zope that lets you browse and edit Zope via WebDAV

   Don't forget - Zope also comes with FTP and webDAV built in.

Biggest vs. Longest

There's been some discussion of which zope has been up the longest on the Zope list as well as ZopeZen. Looks like the current record is 149 days

Tim Cook has zope running on an IBM S/390 serving his Free Practice Management solution for doctors, which, until I hear otherwise, is the biggest hardware running Zope.

As a side note, you really don't want to be there when PythonLabs folks start comparing dicts...

Zope Status

by Brian Lloyd

Summary

Marching on 2.4, opening CVS, API documentation

Recent News

We are planning for a Zope 2.4 alpha the week of May 21 - nearly all of the major tasks for Zope 2.4 on Python 2.1 are either complete or in the testing / wrapping up phase. You can look at the 2.4 plan to follow the status of the 2.4 track

Some of the tasks completed this week include the extended DTML sorting capability and sequence variable prefixes

The Zope CVS Migration project is moving along. We have worked out and captured the requirements and design for the repository structure and we have the basic CVS infrastructure in place. There are a number of documentation and coordination tasks left, but most of the hard decisions have been. Now its a matter of working the plan.

In other Fishbowl new, the guys in Portland are working on an effort to produce / improve documentation for the Zope API

Please visit the project area and add your two cents! A big part of "getting the documentation right" is hearing from you about what is currently wrong.

Formulator

by Martijn Faassen

On april 30 Formulator 0.9 was released. This is a complete reimplementation of ZFormulator. Formulator is a flexible and extensible framework for the creation and validation of forms. It integrates well with the Zope management interface. Online help is provided.

I'm looking for feedback on Formulator, both from people trying to use it as well as people trying to extend it with new fields in Python. So if you're curious, please go and check it out w the status of the 2.4 track", http://dev.zope.org/Resources/zope_240_plan.html

Some of the tasks completed this week include the extended DTML sorting capability and sequence variable prefixes

The Zope CVS Migration project is moving along. We have worked out and captured the requirements and design for the repository structure and we have the basic CVS infrastructure in place. There are a number of documentation and coordination tasks left, but most of the hard decisions have been. Now its a matter of working the plan.

In other Fishbowl news, the guys in Portland are working on an effort to produce / improve documentation for the Zope API

Please visit the project area and add your two cents! A big part of "getting the documentation right" is hearing from you about what is currently wrong.

Zope Web

by Ethan Fremen

Zope.org enhancement

CMFWiki, an attempt to make Wiki pages participate in the CMF, is underway. There is a new MockUp of navigation and control elements for the new zope.org. Does it suck? I've also done some work putting together Actors and Goals to try to capture the Use Cases that are relevant for zope.org.

Kill HTML Mail

There is a proposal out there to reject mail formatted in html that gets sent to the list. I can change things so that any html mail that gets sent to the list is rejected with a message that states that the lists do not accept HTML mail. If you think it should be that way, send an email to webmaster with the subject "no html mail". If you think that the behaviour should stay the same, email the webmaster with the subject "ok html mail"

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