Re: [Zope-dev] License issues

2000-11-14 Thread Chris Withers
Juan David IbXXez Palomar wrote: software, but I know there's people that don't use Zope because of this incompatibility. their loss... Chris ___ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross

Re: [Zope-dev] License issues

2000-11-14 Thread Chris Withers
Juan David IbXXez Palomar wrote: And more, there's already zope software with the GPL license, for example ZWiki. ZWiki is included in Debian, probably the Debian developer that maintains the package is not aware of these license issues. Has any open source license issue actually come to

Re: [Zope-dev] License issues

2000-11-14 Thread Juan David Ibáñez Palomar
Has any open source license issue actually come to court yet? How many people really care about this compared to the number of people who just want to get on, develop and use software in an open source community fashion and don't want to get involved in religious flame wars? My $0.02

Re: [Zope-dev] License issues

2000-11-14 Thread Christopher Petrilli
this is not about religion and a flame war is the last thing I want I only wanted to let you know about these facts, and yes there're projects that have been hurt by "license issues", for example KDE. Regaurding licensing, twhile I wouldn't want to snuff out freedom of speech, I would say

Re: [Zope-dev] License issues

2000-11-14 Thread Juan David Ibáñez Palomar
Regaurding licensing, twhile I wouldn't want to snuff out freedom of speech, I would say that we have already had the "Licensing Wars" about 18 months ago, and things are settled and non negotiable at this point. Arguing only creates tension in the community, which does more damage

[Zope-dev] Adding execute() to Zope DA's for use by External methods

2000-11-14 Thread Brad Clements
I have Python code that I use outside of Zope, and inside Zope via external methods. This code uses database adapters (anything version 1 or later). When my code is used within Zope, I have in the past had two database connections from within the Zope process. One connection is the actual

Re: [Zope-dev] License issues

2000-11-14 Thread Simon Michael
Juan, thanks for shining some light towards this murky area. Maybe ZWiki and other zope products need to be LGPL or dual-licensed, maybe the zope license can use some refinement. I for one won't know without seeing some enlightened discussion of the issue. This stuff is unsexy but important.

[Zope-dev] Two glaring omissions

2000-11-14 Thread Alexander Limi
Hi, I've been working with Zope for almost two years now, and there are two things that I feel is missing in the interface: 1. The ability to add a Base class after the class is created 2. The ability to rename properties after instances of the classes have been created (and have the data

Re: [Zope-dev] Two glaring omissions

2000-11-14 Thread Andy McKay
Of course all those points can be done in python, im assuming you are talking about ZClasses. -- Andy McKay, Developer. ActiveState. - Original Message - From: "Alexander Limi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 11:35 AM Subject: [Zope-dev] Two

Re: [Zope-dev] Two glaring omissions

2000-11-14 Thread Shane Hathaway
Alexander Limi wrote: I've been working with Zope for almost two years now, and there are two things that I feel is missing in the interface: 1. The ability to add a Base class after the class is created This is a feature we'd like to have, but the way ZClasses work currently makes it

Re: [Zope-dev] PythonMethods: Can't Slice context.REQUEST.PARENTS

2000-11-14 Thread Dieter Maurer
The Doctor What writes: Using context.this().id, self.this().id, m_self.this().id all get me the same things: Folder, Zope, and my method. None give me the DTML Document foo_html. If it is indeed a DTML Document, then "this()" should reference this document. If it is a DTML Method, then

Re: [Zope-dev] PythonMethods: Can't Slice context.REQUEST.PARENTS

2000-11-14 Thread The Doctor What
I got a reply from someone working on it. It seems the answer is that it doesn't exist yet, pending a change in ZOPE itself. So I have to pass it in: dtml-var expr="breadcrumbs(this())" Not a big deal, but annoying. I'll make the source available as soon as I coble together a view-source

Re: [Zope-dev] PythonMethods: Can't Slice context.REQUEST.PARENTS

2000-11-14 Thread Dieter Maurer
Evan Simpson writes: From: The Doctor What [EMAIL PROTECTED] Using context.this().id, self.this().id, m_self.this().id all get me the same things: Folder, Zope, and my method. None give me the DTML Document foo_html. This would seem to be an important thing. The only

[Zope-dev] ZPatterns Product distribution not showing up as a product?

2000-11-14 Thread jimbo
Hi, If I try to distribute it and leave it set for "Allow redistribution". Its not showing up in the Zope products directory tree after I untar the 3 files into the file system products directory and restarting Zope. I have a Dataskin based ZClass, 2 Specialist, the default constructor

Re: [Zope] FYI: Digital Creations secures $12M round of investment

2000-11-14 Thread Tony McDonald
On 14/11/00 3:15 am, "Paul Everitt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Zope friends. At long last we at Digital Creations are able to publicly say it: we've closed a $12M round of investment: http://www.digicool.com/News/CRound.html It's out on the newswire now. We'll start pushing it

RE: [Zope] opinions please

2000-11-14 Thread Cornelis J. de Brabander
About webdav I don't know. In your first option it looks strange to me to use email for your purpose. I would create a form with fields for the attributes of the file to be uploaded an a field input type 'file'. Then I would create a action method that essentially is a wrapper for the

[Zope] Problems with Zope 2.2.2 and MS SQL Server

2000-11-14 Thread Pieter Claerhout
Hello all, I'm having some troubles connecting Zope 2.2.2 to Microsoft SQL Server. I downloaded and installed the product ZODBCDA, and I was able to connect to the SQL Server. I was able to define the SQL methods, and when I test them, everything is successful. The problem is that when I use

[Zope] Referecing items in subfolders

2000-11-14 Thread Pieter Claerhout
Hello all, have a small question. Imagine you have the following folder structure in Zope: http://testserver.pclaerhout.com/index_html http://testserver.pclaerhout.com/resources/standard_header http://testserver.pclaerhout.com/resources/standard_footer How can I reference the standard_header

Re: [Zope] Referecing items in subfolders

2000-11-14 Thread Geir Bækholt
try : dtml-with resources dtml-var standard_header /dtml-with -- Geir Bækholt web-developer/designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.funcom.com on Tuesday, November 14, 2000 Pieter Claerhout wrote : PC Hello all, PC have a small question. Imagine you have the following folder structure in Zope:

Re: [Zope] Form variables with same name as folder names

2000-11-14 Thread Chris Withers
"Burwell, Becky " wrote: The simple answer: use REQUEST.form['FOO'] to refer to the form variable. I just did an experiment and if I do the following my SQL Method: dtml-if REQUEST.form['FOO'] this is never true. ...because you're missing some " " REQUEST.form['FOO'] is a python

Re: [Zope] SSL and relative links (URLs)

2000-11-14 Thread Chris Withers
Dustin Engelhaupt wrote: My real problem is that when I call a zope object relatively (ex- href="zope_object" instead of href="zope_object.absolute_url()" or href="https://bla.com/zope/zope_object"), the protocol is displayed as http instead of https. I had this problem with absolute_url()

Re: [Zope] Referecing items in subfolders

2000-11-14 Thread Chris Withers
Sounds like you want Shane Hathaway's Transparent Folder product... cheers, Chris Pieter Claerhout wrote: Hello all, have a small question. Imagine you have the following folder structure in Zope: http://testserver.pclaerhout.com/index_html

RE: [Zope] Referecing items in subfolders

2000-11-14 Thread Cornelis J. de Brabander
You could use: dtml-with resources dtml-var standard_header /dtml-with I would suggest, however, to reorganize your design and to put index_html in a subfolder of a folder where standard-header and standard_footer reside and let acquisition take care of the work. cb -Original

[Zope] Zope and Windows DB's = NOT! ?

2000-11-14 Thread Mark Pratt
hi, is anybody successfully using a Windows DB such as MS SQL server 7 with Zope? it seems that the ODBC adaptor is ancient and very error prone so can i conclude that Zope and DB integration under windows is not an option? regards, mark

[Zope] Authentication

2000-11-14 Thread seb bacon
This is strange: when I type http://www.foo.com/roles as an authenticated user, Zope thinks I'm just an Anonymous user. When I type http://www.foo.com/roles/ It realises I'm authenticated. I'm using Apache / ProxyPass on Zope 2.2.2. Any ideas? seb.

Re: [Zope] Zope and Windows DB's = NOT! ?

2000-11-14 Thread Rik Hoekstra
hi, is anybody successfully using a Windows DB such as MS SQL server 7 with Zope? it seems that the ODBC adaptor is ancient and very error prone so can i conclude that Zope and DB integration under windows is not an option? In general, the ODBC adapter may be old, but it works

Re: [Zope] Website search

2000-11-14 Thread Tiago Antão
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Andy McKay wrote: andym I think installing ht://Dig is "programmer-oriented" and is not much more andym simple... ZCatalog is your best bet and its not that complicated really, its andym about as simple as you are going to get. The docs should give you a fairly andym

Re: [Zope] Zope and Windows DB's = NOT! ?

2000-11-14 Thread Mark Pratt
hi rik, On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Rik Hoekstra wrote: In general, the ODBC adapter may be old, but it works well and generally without problems in my experience. wow. we've had exactly the opposite experience and judging by my informal discussions with other Zope users at the Systems 2000

Re: [Zope] FYI: Digital Creations secures $12M round of investment

2000-11-14 Thread J. Atwood
Congrats! It is great to see a company that has not only pledged itself to the Open Source Movement but been extremely successful in doing so. Keep up the great work, good fight and outstanding products. Looking forward to seeing what else you have up your collective sleeves. J At 10:15 PM

Re: [Zope] Referecing items in subfolders

2000-11-14 Thread Matt
I would have thought the dtml-with resources way was possibly a more flexible way of organizing things such that instead of making a base product that people duplicate and customize, all you need to do is set custom resource folders for each person and load these into the name space of the single

RE: [Zope] Referecing items in subfolders

2000-11-14 Thread Cornelis J. de Brabander
Sure, but the setup you sketch is different in design than Pieter's. He just wanted to organize 'different kinds of documents'. cb -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matt Sent: dinsdag 14 november 2000 13:09 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Zope] Zope and Windows DB's = NOT! ?

2000-11-14 Thread Pavel V. Piankov
is anybody successfully using a Windows DB such as MS SQL server 7 with Zope? i`ve been using it with MS SQL6.5 1,5 year, no problem... it seems that the ODBC adaptor is ancient and very error prone so can i conclude that Zope and DB integration under windows is not an option? Hmm...

Re: [Zope] How to access column names in DTML Methods

2000-11-14 Thread Jose Soares
Great! Thank you very much Curtis. Curtis Maloney wrote: On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Jose Soares wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to display the column names of a Record object without success. I'm able to access column data using sequence-item but I don't know how to display column names.

[Zope] Re: SSL and relative links (URLs)

2000-11-14 Thread Ross Lazarus
Do a search on the zope site for ssl. You'll find two very useful howto's - one describes the apache httpd.conf virtual host pixie dust using proxy and proxyrewrite directives (you need to build apache with mod_rewrite and mod_proxy as well as mod_ssl) and the other has some details on

[Zope] re: requests for some dtml tags

2000-11-14 Thread Jeffrey P Shell
From: jacintha menezes  [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Is there any dtml tags for creating a new work space also for locking some page.Locking some page in the sense for second user the operations in that page should not be processed unless the process for first user is completed.If there dtml

[Zope] Re: [Fwd: [Zope] Re: Advanced search in ZCatalog (Micha)]

2000-11-14 Thread daniel dias
Hi, Ok, I could achieve something with this approach. But it's not clear for me how to set the ZCatalog to create an index from the result of an external method. Can you please explain how to achieve this? Also, the ZCatalog queries use an "and" chain for each token provided (eg. if a query is

[Zope] Re: [Fwd: [Zope] Re: Advanced search in ZCatalog (Micha)]

2000-11-14 Thread daniel dias
Hi, Ok, I could achieve something with this approach. But it's not clear for me how to set the ZCatalog to create an index from the result of an external method. Can you please explain how to achieve this? Also, the ZCatalog queries use an "and" chain for each token provided (eg. if a query is

[Zope] Deleted product breaks SQL_Method Advanced tab - How to fix?

2000-11-14 Thread Brad Clements
Zope 2.2.2 binary on Linux (also shows up on Windows version) I'm looking for suggestions on how to fix this, I can't access the advanced tab of any of my SQL_Methods. I had played with some products, deleted them from the file system and removed them from the products list in Zope (is order

[Zope] DateTime problem

2000-11-14 Thread Alejandro Pancani
if I have a string that represent a date with the format dd/mm/ How could I do to obtain a DateTime object from it? Alejandro Pancani [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No

[Zope] CMS isn't word, is it? ($12M round of investment)

2000-11-14 Thread peter bengtson
"content management", says Paul Is that word different from "content management system"? Known also as CMS? My mother tongue is not english, but this feels like a techie (or perhaps e-business) question of english. I feel that if I were to deliver a management interface for a client I would

Re: [Zope] Zope and Windows DB's = NOT! ?

2000-11-14 Thread tom smith
on 14/11/00 12:51 pm, Pavel V. Piankov at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it seems that the ODBC adaptor is ancient and very error prone so can i conclude that Zope and DB integration under windows is not an option? I found the oDBC stuff works fine with Access and SQLServer. Though passing

RE: [Zope] Zope and Windows DB's = NOT! ?

2000-11-14 Thread Farrell, Troy
I've been using ZODBCDA 3.1.0b3 for 3 months on MS Acccess with no problems. Zope 2.2.2 Access 97 SR2 NT 4 SP6a 100MHz P5 32MB Ram Troy ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML

Re: [Zope] Deleted product breaks SQL_Method Advanced tab - How to fix?

2000-11-14 Thread seb bacon
How can I remove this object from the zodb? How do I find it? Any idea why SQL_Method even cares about this? there was a longish thread about this recently (search for something like 'Data.fs corrupted?!'). the upshot was, i think, that products that haven't been written carefully can

[Zope] Re: why DTML confusing

2000-11-14 Thread Irene Barg
To all of you that responded, I appreciate your comments. I will admit, after reading some of your comments, and going back to the DTML Reference, this topic is discussed in the section under "The special namespace variable". Right before my eyes, there is an example doing exactly what I

Re: [Zope] Website search

2000-11-14 Thread Andy McKay
Depends what you mean by easy. You can catalog objects outside of Zope inside Zope by creating a non-persistent object. If you want to make a search engine like google... then you'd need to write a spider to create these objects.. no, not easy. -- Andy McKay, Developer. ActiveState. -

Re: [Zope] FYI: Digital Creations secures $12M round of investment

2000-11-14 Thread Andy McKay
Congratulations, with Guido and pals moving to DC as well this is a great month for DC and Zope. -- Andy McKay, Developer. ActiveState. - Original Message - From: "Paul Everitt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 7:15 PM

Re: [Zope] Zope and Windows DB's = NOT! ?

2000-11-14 Thread Andy McKay
I have used Zope 2.1.6, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2 with MS Access 2000, MS SQL 7 and MS SQL 2000 Beta and Full. The only problem was with 2.2.0 where permissions broke the ZODBC driver was broken, there was a patch and 2.2.1 up had the problem fixed. What version of Zope, OS, ZODBC and DB are you

Re: [Zope] Re: [Fwd: [Zope] Re: Advanced search in ZCatalog (Micha)]

2000-11-14 Thread Andy McKay
A ZCatalog reads a classes methods, so you can only make an external method be read if the External method is part of your ZClass. If this is the case, simply make an external method call my_index that returns a string. Then when object is recatalogued, ZCatalog will read that external method.

Re: [Zope] Zope and Windows DB's = NOT! ?

2000-11-14 Thread Mark Pratt
hello andy, hello all others who answered my post, first of all thank you for letting me know the positive experiences you have had with the ODBC adaptor and your various installations. i'm relieved that Zope and window's DB's do work together -- and this prompted some new tests on my part.

[Zope] Re: Advanced search in ZCatalog PartII

2000-11-14 Thread michael Kobald
Hi, First Part: Create Index First, create the index "name of mymethod" in the Catalog. ZCatalog can only index objects he knows of ! eg. use "find item to ZCatalog" tab, use the index method or use CatalogAware as base Class for ZClass. Additionally you have to reindex your object if its

Re: [Zope] Problems with Zope 2.2.2 and MS SQL Server

2000-11-14 Thread Rik Hoekstra
I'm having some troubles connecting Zope 2.2.2 to Microsoft SQL Server. I downloaded and installed the product ZODBCDA, and I was able to connect to the SQL Server. I was able to define the SQL methods, and when I test them, everything is successful. The problem is that when I use for example

Re: [Zope] Zope and Windows DB's = NOT! ?

2000-11-14 Thread Rik Hoekstra
hello andy, hello all others who answered my post, first of all thank you for letting me know the positive experiences you have had with the ODBC adaptor and your various installations. i'm relieved that Zope and window's DB's do work together -- and this prompted some new tests on my

[Zope] ZCatalog problem on insert

2000-11-14 Thread Menard . Jean-Francois
I'm experiencing some problems with the zCatalog. I made some customized forms for inserting data. Yes, I use the ...reindex_object. And Yes, I use ...manage_addProduct. I can see the objects in the Catalog, but my search results are always empty! If I update the Catalog manually (in the

[Zope] ppc.rpm built from src.rpm

2000-11-14 Thread addyd
RPM gurus? Couldn't find Zope 2.2.2 RPMs for LinuxPPC, so attempted to create my own from src.rpms at Jeff Rush's site. Followed the directions given at the LinuxPPC FAQ-O-Matic. Everything seemed to go well and it build an entire set of ppc.rpms with no error messages. Installed the whole

RE: [Zope] FYI: Digital Creations secures $12M round of investment

2000-11-14 Thread Gijs Reulen
Congratulations, with Guido and pals moving to DC as well this is a great month for DC and Zope. All good things come in three, as we say in the Netherlands. Wonder what will happen next ;-) Gijs -- Andy McKay, Developer. ActiveState. - Original Message - From: "Paul

[Zope] re: ppc.rpm from src.rpm: RTFD

2000-11-14 Thread addyd
Sorry all, To answer my own question: /etc/rc.d/init.d/zope start Seems I need to read to the bottom of the documentation on the download page before asking questions. Sheesh, some people's kids! blushing Darren Addy Web Specialist Information Technology Services University of Nebraska at

[Zope] creating ZClass instances from an external method

2000-11-14 Thread Gary Reynolds
I have a need to do some creating of objects from python code. Am I correct in thinking that to add a new object, that is one of my products, I need to do something like: folder.manage_addProduct['ProductName'](id='foo', title='bar') I have sample code to create simple things like using

Re: [Zope] Problems with Zope 2.2.2 and MS SQL Server

2000-11-14 Thread Hugo Ramos
- Original Message - From: "Rik Hoekstra" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Pieter Claerhout" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 8:52 PM Subject: Re: [Zope] Problems with Zope 2.2.2 and MS SQL Server I'm having some troubles connecting Zope 2.2.2 to Microsoft

Re: [Zope] DateTime problem

2000-11-14 Thread Dieter Maurer
Alejandro Pancani writes: if I have a string that represent a date with the format dd/mm/ How could I do to obtain a DateTime object from it? dtml-call "REQUEST.set('tmplist',_.string.split(udate,'/'))" dtml-call "tmplist.reverse()" dtml-var "ZopeTime(_.string.join(tmplist,'/'))"

Re: [Zope] Zope and Windows DB's = NOT! ?

2000-11-14 Thread Dieter Maurer
Mark Pratt writes: is anybody successfully using a Windows DB such as MS SQL server 7 with Zope? it seems that the ODBC adaptor is ancient and very error prone so can i conclude that Zope and DB integration under windows is not an option? I use Zope 2.1.6 and ZODBCDA to

Re: [Zope] Building dynamically class instances using external methods.

2000-11-14 Thread Dieter Maurer
Hannes Grund writes: I have an external Method which creates dynamically an instance from of a class depending on some input to a function contained in this method. In short the code (of the external method) class Classname: Called from Zope this does not work. The pickle

Re: [Zope] How to access column names in DTML Methods

2000-11-14 Thread Dieter Maurer
Jose Soares writes: I'm trying to display the column names of a Record object without success. I'm able to access column data using sequence-item but I don't know how to display column names. The "Results" object has a method "names()" returning the column names. A Record object hides the

[Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] Re: [Zope] FIX for the infamous __call__ bug - testers needed!

2000-11-14 Thread Dieter Maurer
Chris Withers writes: What was the manifestation of this problem again? I know, you know the searchable archive ;-) The easiest way to reproduce the problem: F1/ F2/ D (DTML Document): dtml-with F1/dtml-with F2/D raises an AttributeError __call__ for "F1". Dieter

Re: [Zope] Forcing Content-Type of Image object

2000-11-14 Thread Dieter Maurer
Peter Bengtsson writes: I don't want Zope to find out what content type an Image has. I want to be able to force that programmatically myself from DTML. Here are some code examples that doesn't work: dtml-call "PARENTS[0].manage_addImage('awapimage.wbmp',file,'Give it a

Re: [Zope] Where to store my data?

2000-11-14 Thread Karl Anderson
"Andy McKay" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: XML (page contents)-- every URL should result in an XML document, containing all the information that will be presented on that page. Written in DTML? XMLDocument. XMLDocument might or might not be what you want here - while it does provide

[Zope] Cut, copy paste

2000-11-14 Thread Robert
I am returning to some Zope work after a long absence and I cannot get cut, copy paste to work in the management screens. I have a brand new install of 2.2.2 on NT4/SP6, using IE5 (with cookies enabled) and if I cut/copy something in the management screens, the paste button appears as

[Zope] PropertyManager

2000-11-14 Thread Max M
Does anybody know a good example that shows the working of the PropertyManager?? An example with a product that subclasses the PropertyManager and sets the "_properties" and the "__ac_permissions__" would be preferable. But anything will do. Regards Max M Max M. W. Rasmussen,Denmark.

[Zope] Re: install win32all for Zope

2000-11-14 Thread kentsin
Mark, The problem is : I have 2.0 installed on the box. But, Zope do not use 2.0 yet. It comes with its own python 1.52. The directory layout is: Python20 --- Python 2.0 for the whole system Program Files --- | Zope -- Zope installation | | bin -- Python 1.52 |- |

Re: [Zope] PropertyManager

2000-11-14 Thread Jonothan Farr
The Local File System product does this. You can check out the source code at http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/Products/LocalFS. --jfarr - Original Message - From: "Max M" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Zope@Zope. Org" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 4:39 PM Subject: [Zope]

Re: [Zope] DateTime problem

2000-11-14 Thread Aaron Payne
To view it as a DateTime object: dtml-var "_.DateTime(yourstring)" or Create a DateTime object with an id of datestring to be rendered later. dtml-call "REQUEST.set('datestring',_.DateTime(yourstring)" To view it: dtml-var datestring At 12:03 AM 11/15/00 -0300, Alejandro Pancani wrote: if I

Re: [Zope] Do Zope Haz Templates?

2000-11-14 Thread Curtis Maloney
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Padrino wrote: I Was Serching And looking For Templates and I Was Guessing if Zope really Has It? DTML. Document Template Markup Language. DTML is Zopes templating language. Look at DTML Documents and DTML Methods. Have a better one, Curtis Maloney

RE: [Zope] ZGDChart product...

2000-11-14 Thread Furbach, Andreas
Hello. The function _chartdata in ZGDchart.py returns only one label column and one data column. You may want to change this to: * def _chartdata(self): """ return the first and second