The big news this week was the release of Zope 2.0 beta
one. Zope 2 final is getting closer and closer. Beta one
increases stability over the alpha releases and also adds a few
missing pieces like the ability to tie permissions to factories.
Also you can now export Zope objects to XML. Speaking of XML, as of
beta one all basic Zope objects support a subset of the DOM Element
interface, and the unsupported XML Document product is out and in
CVS.
* Zope 2.0 beta one was released this week. Now you can download
a binary release of Zope 2.
http://www.zope.org/Download/Releases/Zope-2.0.0b1
* The Zope site received a look and feel makeover. Most people
seem to like the new design. A couple people posted describing the
strange feeling of having the entire site change while browsing it.
Zope sessions are cool!
http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/007368.html
* Amos Latteier announced the availability of XML Document 1.0a1
a Zope product for using XML. A couple days later, XML Document
made it into public CVS.
http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/007126.html
http://www.zope.org/Download/XMLDocument
http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-July/000990.html
* Anthony Pfrunder announced a new version of his Zope for
windows distribution.
http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/007189.html
* Michel Pelletier announced Zippy Tag which allows you to
insert random Zippy the Pinhead quotes in your Zope documents.
Yes!
http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/007190.html
http://www.zope.org/Download/Contrib/Zippy.tgz
* Paul Everitt discusses how you can now export Zope objects to
XML. Basically the XML format describes Python pickles.
http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/007200.html
* Michel Pelletier posted an extremely simple summary of how to
hook a form to a database. This is a good read for those new to
Zope.
http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/007336.html
* Andreas Kostyrka posted a patch to allow Zope to server
multiple sites from one process. Very interesting, multiple sites
from one object database!
http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-July/000931.html
http://www.mtg.co.at/projects/subhosting/
* Eric Kidd posted a Zope/XML-RPC todo list. Follow up posts
confirmed that a number of the items have already been done.
http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-July/000972.html
* Brian Lloyd posted an insightful message describing the
‘Owner’ role and how to use proxy roles to allow limited access to
restricted functions.
http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-July/000987.html
* Chris Petrilli mentioned that Gadfly is finally being updated
to the latest version. Alright!
http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-July/001002.html
See you next week, same time, same channel.
-Amos
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Amos Latteier amos@digicool.com
Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com