Five 0.2b released

The Five team has released Five 0.2b. Five is a Zope 2 product that allows you to use Zope 3 technologies in Zope 2, today. This release is much improved compared to 0.1, and should work with the latest Zope X3 release.

Five allows you to use the following Zope 3 technologies in Zope 2:

Zope 3 interfaces
adapters
pages (views), including skins and layers
ZCML, including things like Zope 2 security declarations from ZCML

A lot is new and improved in this release, including improved traversal system, bridging system for Zope 2 interfaces, Zope 3 events for Zope 2 objects, and more. For a complete list of changes, see here:

http://codespeak.net/z3/five/CHANGES.html

With Five, it is possible to add Zope 3 style views to your own Zope 2 objects, or to existing ones, even normal Folders! For a more extensive list of Five features, see here:

http://codespeak.net/z3/five/features.html

Five 0.2b allows you to use Zope X3 technologies in a straight Zope 2.7.2 installation. See Five's INSTALL.txt for more information on how to set it up.

Download Five 0.2b:

http://codespeak.net/z3/five/release/Five-0.2b.tgz

More about the Five project:

http://codespeak.net/z3/five

Five is part of the Zope 3 Base project, which aims to offer an approachable area for the developers of Zope 3 related software. More about the Zope 3 base:

http://codespeak.net/z3/

The Five Team