ArielPartners releases ExternalFile 1.0

This is the fourth public release of our ExternalFile product.

This new release adds much requested features like

batch add capability -- add instances whole directories at a time!
extensible mimetypes -- you can now add new mimetypes and control exactly how they are to be displayed
can behave_like File -- non-image binaries now behave_like Zope Files, with much improved mime type handling.
programmability you may now create instances using scripts rather than through the web GUI if you wish. There are even a set of detailed example scripts to help you get started!

This new release is compatible with CVSFile-0-8. It also extends its "workalike" capabilities. ExternalFile can now behave like any of the following:

DTMLDocument
DTMLMethod
Image
File

Why not simply use ExtFile? Because ExternalFile supports pointing to a file "in situ" like a symbolic link, rather than copying it into some central repository directory.

This may not seem like a big deal, until you consider that those files might be stored in a revision control system like CVS. ExternalFile gives you the ability to create a Zope object that points to a file in, for example, a CVS sandbox for its content.

ExternalFile is usable by itself. It is also the base class for CVSFile.

This product is compatible with the popular ExternalEditor product.

Objects created using ExternalFile version 0.9 should work with no changes under version 1.0 that is, no special Schema Migration is necessary.