CVS update ready, Zope Book is now availiable, Developers Guide beta released, and Python Releases, all in this week's ZWN...

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CVS Developments

by Ken Manheimer

As threatened, we have transformed Zope's public CVS repository. Many of the changes are internal, though they have significant consequences for people doing checkouts. There are also some exciting consequences in what we'll be able to do with the repository.

Here's the scoop.

First, you can catch up on progress of the migration at the project's CurrentStatus page and see updated checkout instructions, to dive right in.

Highlights of the changes:

• It's all on a different machine. The switchover involved remapping the DNS entry for cvs.zope.org, so this should be particularly transparent.
• The repository contents have been reorganized to enable much better modularity - so applications that depend on common components can be built that way. This reorganization means that old checkouts (of Zope2, StandaloneZODB, CMF, and so forth) have to be redone. More info, below.
• The mirroring scheme - we're not doing that anymore! Digital Creations developers checkout and checkin directly to the repository, and we will be able to invite developers from the community to do the same. We plan to start doing so, soon.

More details...

The Reorg - Old Checkouts Will Have To Be Redone

Old checkouts of the Zope ("Zope2") and CMF modules (and possibly others) will no longer track changes. Instead, you need to check out the new modules as Zope or CMF. Some other primary modules: StandaloneZODB and ZEO.

To help people see the modules that are available (without reading the CVSROOT/modules file), i've added a new, top-level file to the CVS repository, README.txt. The ViewCVS interface, makes it easy to read this file.

Public Access

Public read-only access is much the same, though the names have changed (to protect the innocent?-).

The new site has provisions for creating repository users, according to their zope.org member accounts. When admitted, the members can deposit SSH public keys (via a (php!) web form in the repository-user management scheme), and use the SSH access to do remote CVS checkouts and checkins.

Initially, we're going to be inviting people who have proven themselves with good patches and other functionality, to start expanding the cadre of people able to work directly on the core code.

Our user-management mechanisms (developed by the folks at baymountain) will also enable us to create additional repositories, so that we can host other zope work not directly connected with the core. We'll be getting to that once we shake out the processes for coordinating the core work.

The general CVS arrangement, including instructions, policies, and resource, will be documented in http://dev.zope.org/CVS . I hope to have at least some of that filled in by the time many of you read this.

Python Releases

Python 2.1.1 is out, along with 2.2.a1 . 2.1.1 is a bugfix release that includes GPL compatibility.

1. 2.a1, on the other hand, includes lots of interesting new functionality including:

• first pass at making Types behave more like Classes, and subtyping built in types.
• Generators - a new way to create an iterator.
• Iterators - A new way to provide values in a for loop.
• Better Unicode support

Download one or both and check them out!

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