Zope Weekly News for December 22, 1999

Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 18:18:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Mike Pelletier mike@digicool.com
To: editors@linuxtoday.com

G’day,

Zope Weekly News is a digest of some of the useful and
interesting events which have occurred on the various Zope mailing
lists and the Zope.org site. It is published each Wednesday
evening.

Any opinions contained in the Zope Weekly News are those of the
chronicler exclusively.

Announcements

* Amos Lattier has started a series at XML.com about XML and
Zope. The first article is available.

http://www.xml.com/pub/1999/12/zope/index.html

* Beehive has translated additional Zope How-Tos into German.
German speaking Zope users are welcome to contribute to the
effort.

http://www.zope.de/bibliothek/How-Tos/

http://www.zope.de

* The new Zope Front Door has been installed. Comments to
webmaster@zope.org are
encouraged.

http://www.zope.org

* Lutz Ehrlich has launched the German Python/Zope network.

“It is meant to be a lightweight and efficient means to form a
network of freelancers able to provide Python/Zope services in the
German speaking part of the world.”

http://www.python-netzwerk.de

* A mailing list has been set up to support the Zope Mozilla
Initiative. It’s address is zope-mozilla@zope.org.

http://www.zope.org/Resources/Mozilla

New Products

* “4am” posted a bash script to automate generating distribution
archives of Python Products.

http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/packProduct

Updates

* The Z SQL Methods User’s Guide has been updated.

http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Guides/ZSQL

* “4am” has updated SiteAccess to work with Zope 2.1.

http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/SiteAccess

Zope.org items

* “limi” posted the 100th How-To, which is about using
multiple-selection and selection properties.

http://www.zope.org/Members/limi/multipleselection-howto

* “dparker” submitted a tip for editing Zope resources with the
editor of your choice under KDE, and suggests that the same
technique may work for other environments.

http://www.zope.org/Members/dparker/alternativeeditors

* “sfs” has contributed a helpful document on forcing clients to
use HTTPS when using the management interface.

http://www.zope.org/Members/sfs/Apache/SSL/forcehttpsformanage

Notable Discussions

* chas started a discussion titled “Linux/Redhat advice : RPMs
vs Src for Zope development ?” “chas” is new to Linux, coming from
a FreeBSD background, and he in curious about the relative merits
of installing from the sources versus installing with an RPM.

http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-December/016006.html

* Christopher Petrilli posted to zope-dev to let everyone know
that Even Simpson’s Python Methods have been rolled in to Zope, and
are now committed to the CVS. Some discussion of Python Methods
followed.

http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-December/002735.html

* Dave Parker complained that his namespace kept disappearing
when he called a DTML Method from a DTML Method. Jim Fulton and
others wrote in explaining what was happening, why it happened, and
how to pass values to a DTML Method without losing your namespace.
A lot of very useful information, sure to cause many a
forehead-slap. Jim also mentions that you may not have to jump
through this particular hoop too much longer.

http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-December/002715.html

* Andrew Hall has his FastCGI/Zope setup troubleshot by the
mailing list. An error in the documentation
(doc/WEBSERVER.txt) is pointed out! (Corrected in the CVS.)

http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-December/015882.html

—
Mike Pelletier.