Follow-up last week's threads, Page Templates is at 1.3.1, yet another way to talk to your zope, 2.4 alpha early next week, and no html mail in this week's ZWN.

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Page Templates

by Evan Simpson

Page Templates are now at version 1.3.1, and should be used with TAL 1.3 and ZTUtils 1.0. They are compatible with Zope 2.3.x and can also use the Restricted Python machinery that will be introduced in Zope 2.4.

Based on a survey of ZPT mailing list subscribers, a number of minor changes were made to expression syntax. There is now a PageTemplateFile class, and it is used to implement the Page Template add and edit pages. Python expressions can use path expressions (and other expression types) through builtin functions named after each type, as in "python:path(x/y | a/b) + 1".

There aren't any changes on the drawing board at the moment, so it's time to buckle down and write some more documentation.

1. ways to talk to your Zope

   Last week, I talked about different ways to talk to your zope. I forgot to mention zopeshell , a shell like utility that acts as a unix cli to manipulate your zope.

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

On the brink of 2.4 alpha

Recent News

We were planning for a Zope 2.4 alpha the week of May 21, but as of this writing it looks like it will actually be early next week (the week of the 28th), as there are still a few loose ends to follow up. You can look at the 2.4 plan to follow the status of the 2.4 track

The Zope CVS Migration has unfortunately not gotten the attention that it needs this week - I hope to rectify that next week.

Biggest & Longest

Tim Cook, not willing to settle for having Zope on the biggest hardware, had to have the longest running zope, as well - 182 days as of May 23. Congrats, Tim!

Zope Web

by Ethan Fremen

Zope.org enhancement

I've done a lot of work on the use cases, so if you want to see how you would use the new zope.org, come take a look!

Kill HTML Mail

Everyone, by a 6:1 margin, wants html mail to be rejected. I will spend some time working on making mail that has HTML attachments be either refused with a message to the sender indicating the lists don't accept html mail, or have the html part stripped off. The former is more likely.

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