[Zope] The Zope Weekly News

2000-05-23 Thread Michel Pelletier
ng pthreads with Solaris: http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2000-May/025859.html o Paul Everitt announces a little 'gem' in the CVS version of Zope, mountable databases!: http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2000-May/025928.html Don'

[Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] Cannot rename or move my ZClass object

2000-05-24 Thread Michel Pelletier
Please don't cross-post to both lists. Lindell Alderman wrote: > > I have derived a ZClass from the Folder base class and it works > great, except I cannot rename or move my ZClass. How can I fix this? What is the error and traceback that you get when moving or renaming fails?

Re: [Zope] Broken ZWiki

2000-05-24 Thread Michel Pelletier
endency checker that works like debian's apt.. Or like Roxen's module upgrader. Pretty please. -- -Michel Pelletier http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/MyWiki Visit WikiCentral for the latest Zen: http://www.zope.org/Members/WikiCentral ___

Re: [Zope] The agony of the ZOPE Documentation

2000-05-24 Thread Michel Pelletier
button on most management screens. Yes the help system is great. Also check out the various Wikis on Zope.org where the new flava of documentation is emerging as we speak. http://www.zope.org/Members/WikiCentral -- -Michel Pelletier http://www.zope.org

Re: [Zope] ANN: Perl For Zope

2000-05-25 Thread Michel Pelletier
sturb DTML, why would we let perl? > The end result though is that if we can get the Perl community to > start using/developing on Zope it is a big win. This is, in fact, one of the key points. -- -Michel Pelletier http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/MyWiki Visit WikiCentral f

Re: [Zope] ANN: Perl For Zope

2000-05-25 Thread Michel Pelletier
a peice of well documented Zope interface, it shouldn't matter which language they speak, they should get a clear answer. This is more important than the syntax anyday. -- -Michel Pelletier http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/MyWiki Visit WikiCentral for the latest Zen: http://www.zope.org

Re: [Zope] ANN: Perl For Zope

2000-05-25 Thread Michel Pelletier
nified effort would far exceed the sum of the two incredible efforts to date. We don't want that in the web world. -- -Michel Pelletier http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/MyWiki Visit WikiCentral for the latest Zen: http://www.zope.org/Members/WikiCentral _

[Zope] A similar issue with Perl for Zope

2000-05-25 Thread Michel Pelletier
ect model with clear interfaces. It shouldn't matter if the core of Zope is written in Python or FORTH, from your perspective and the perspective of your language the model and interfaces should be well definded. -- -Michel Pelletier http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/MyWiki Visit W

Re: [Zope] logout

2000-06-09 Thread Michel Pelletier
che. An alternative is that you can engineer a cookie based solution. -- -Michel Pelletier http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/MyWiki Visit WikiCentral for the latest Zen: http://www.zope.org/Members/WikiCentral ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Zope] Beta Zope Error

2000-06-13 Thread Michel Pelletier
nery. Anyone else see this? -- -Michel Pelletier http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/MyWiki Visit WikiCentral for the latest Zen: http://www.zope.org/Members/WikiCentral ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [Zope] Version Paradox

2000-06-15 Thread Michel Pelletier
moving the culprit > will unlock your paradox > > cb > > ___ > Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > (Related lists -

Re: [Zope] Containment or context

2000-06-16 Thread Michel Pelletier
equivalent: I'm not going to actually *test* it. Whether it works is left as an exercise to the reader. -- -Michel Pelletier http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/MyWiki Visit WikiCentral for the latest Zen: http://www.zope.org/Members/WikiCentral

Re: [Zope] Containment or context

2000-06-16 Thread Michel Pelletier
Evan Simpson wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: Michel Pelletier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Evan Simpson wrote: > > > for p in REQUEST['PARENTS']: > > > if hasattr(p.aq_explicit, propname): > > > return getattr(p

[Zope] Fw: ZSQL Methods in ZClasses, not working

2000-10-04 Thread Michel Pelletier
Just wanted to get this point archived... Thanks Michel. Forwarded by Alexander Schonfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Original message follows From: Michel Pelletier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: " \(DC Support List\)" <[EMA

Re: [Zope] status of SOAP for Zope?

2000-10-05 Thread Michel Pelletier
Brian Lloyd wrote: > > > MS has released ROPE for client-side SOAP development (finally). > > > > I can't seem to find anything in Zope for doing SOAP, but it was > > announced in Dec 1999 as "upcoming". > > > > What is the status of SOAP on Zope, I need to know if I can use ROPE.. > > Hi Brad -

Re: [Zope] expr="id <> 'index_html" issue

2000-10-09 Thread Michel Pelletier
Seb Bacon wrote: > > > > > try : > > > > > > > >> title_or_id> > > > > > > > > that should be > > > > (quotes round id) > > > > would also work. This is because sometimes id is a property, sometimes it's > a method. The former version would work in every case; th

[Zope-dev] Thanks for the comments

2000-10-12 Thread Michel Pelletier
Just thought we'd mention that we have gotten lots of great comments on the Zope book so far, especially in the last week or so. You're all helping make it a better book and ensuring Zope's future. if you've felt in the past that you may not be technically proficient enough to contribute to the

Re: [Zope] What Products created What Permissions

2000-10-17 Thread Michel Pelletier
Chris Withers wrote: > > Michael Bernstein wrote: > > On a slightly different note, I think that the permissions > > list should be viewable in two more ways: A view where > > permissions are grouped into 'subjects', (for example all Perhaps a better idea is that Permissions are classes that inh

[Zope] O'Reilly Book Tecnical Reviewers

2000-10-20 Thread Michel Pelletier
Greetings, O'Reilly is looking for 4 or 5 technical reviewers for the book. http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/ZB/ Technical reviewers get paid either a small honorarium or get free copies of the book (I am unaware of the exact details). I'm sure this message will elicit a *flood* of candidate

[Zope] The Great Python (and Perl) Method Renaming Poll

2000-10-23 Thread Michel Pelletier
We will be conducting a community poll to decide what to call Python (Perl, insert your language here) Methods. Many candidates have been discussed, but I'm afraid I don't have enough time to cull all the candidates from the discussions. So, before the poll, we are calling for nominiations from

Re: [Zope] dtml-while

2000-10-29 Thread Michel Pelletier
Diego Rodrigo Neufert wrote: > > Why there isnt a dtml-while function in Zope? DTML is not meant to be used for general purpose, logic programming. It's a presentation and layout language. Additionally, a while construct would allow you to create indeterminate loops: ... and you're not al

[Zope] Zope Book Beta

2000-10-30 Thread Michel Pelletier
Amos and I are gibbering like madmen with excitement to announce the Zope Book Beta. This is the complete, technical draft of the book with all screenshots (but minus illustrations, those are on there way!). Some other things like a colophon and information about the authors is missing. The bet

Re: [Zope] Re: [Zope-book] Re: [Zope] Zope Book Beta

2000-10-31 Thread Michel Pelletier
Wolfgang Strobl wrote: > > On 31 Oct 2000, at 10:39, Amos Latteier wrote: > > > I believe that O'Reilly doesn't want the book redistributed before it is > > printed. > > It's gone. > > > I'll recheck with them. > > No need to. > > But what is the meaning of This is the one to print out and g

Re: [Zope] Zope Book Beta

2000-10-31 Thread Michel Pelletier
Chris Withers wrote: > > There a PDF of it anywhere? No, we won't produce one until the book goes to an open content license when it hits the shelf. -Michel > > cheers, > > Chris > > Michel Pelletier wrote: > > > > Amos and I are gibbering li

Re: [Zope] Zope Book Beta

2000-11-01 Thread Michel Pelletier
Fred Yankowski wrote: > > I agree completely that the Zope Book beta will get more reviewers, > and better feedback to the authors, if it is available as PDF. I agree, but this is completely out of our hands and we must focus more on content issues at this point then distribution issues. All of

Re: [Zope] Zope Book Beta

2000-11-01 Thread Michel Pelletier
Tim Lynch wrote: > > I wholeheartedly agree with Jason and Chris. I would very much appreciate a > PDF version that could be easily printed, or read with Adobe's Reader. I hope > there is no hesitation over making a PDF version available because of fear it > will cut into sales of the bound volum

Re: [Zope] Zope Book Beta

2000-11-01 Thread Michel Pelletier
Jason Cunliffe wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: Chris Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Not yet. I think that O'Reilly doesn't want us to produce any more > > > public versions of the book until it is published. I'm double checking > > > with them right now. Take a look at the c

Re: [Zope] zope book AppendixA error

2000-11-03 Thread Michel Pelletier
Didier Georgieff wrote: > > Hello, > I guess DC people is already aware, but i get an error since > yesterday while pointing to ZB/AppendixA.html > > Document Template Parse Error > > invalid parameter: "="Expression"]...", for tag [Name=Variable][Name="Expression"]...>, on line 4

Re: [Zope] error in Zope book

2000-11-03 Thread Michel Pelletier
michael angelo ruberto wrote: > > in chapter 5 the example Creating a File Library has an error in the sorting > method. > > ---ERROR > --- > > > ~this should be ~it doesn't work otherwise. > The reason why it

Re: [Zope] insert but updates don't work

2000-11-04 Thread Michel Pelletier
Graham Chiu wrote: > > I have this rather curious problem with Zope 2.1.3 on WinNT. > > I have a zsql query which returns a number of records. I > want to do an update on the same table that is being queried > for each record returned, but get an authentication > challenge that I can not pass.

Re: [Zope] UML

2000-11-04 Thread Michel Pelletier
Douglas Daniel Del Frari wrote: > > Greetings! > > I am graduation student and I come using the platform zope for > development of systems directed to education. Cool. > One of the main > doubts when using zope, not only the syntax, but also as to use it to > develop applications using m

Re: [Zope] Zope Book Beta

2000-11-05 Thread Michel Pelletier
"Jan H. Haul" wrote: > > The point is that we should be able to give meaningful feedback, > like "page 147, line 15: there should be their" (a totally > made-up example, do not go hunting for that one). > It just does not do to quote full sentences and have the > copyeditor search for all that st

Re: [Zope] Zope Book Beta

2000-11-05 Thread Michel Pelletier
Robin Becker wrote: > > I agree about the numbering, but even more I would like to know which > version of Zope the book is supposed to be about. When it hits the shelves, it will be about 2.3. After that, we will maintain the book to be in sync with the current release according to the as-ye

[Zope] More updates on documentation documentation

2000-11-05 Thread Michel Pelletier
I've added more updates on documentation and worked in the comments recieved from Shane. To help you help us, I added some text on where we need the most attention, check the CurrentIssues for more info. http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/DocumentationProcess/FrontPage This process wil

Re: [Zope] Zope Book Beta

2000-11-06 Thread Michel Pelletier
Robin Becker wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michel Pelletier > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >Robin Becker wrote: > >> > ... > >I belive all reference to xslt methods has been removed. Python methods > >will be part of the 2.3 releas

[Zope] [Fwd: [Zope-dev] Vote on the new name for Python Methods!]

2000-11-07 Thread Michel Pelletier
Please vote folks! -Michel Shane Hathaway wrote: > > Being Election Day in the United States, now is a good time to vote on > the new name for Python Methods. > > Python Methods are a relatively new concept for Zope. They give you the > features of DTML, such as through-the-web editing and se

Re: [Zope] Zope Book (Error and Suggestion)

2000-11-08 Thread Michel Pelletier
The Doctor What wrote: > > At least I think it's an error (either in my understanding or in the > book). > > First off, I think the books great. Finally something that's trying > to explain what's going on. Zope looks so cool, but it's been hard > for a hardcode PHP and Perl programmer like me

Re: [Zope] Are there any man pages out there for these functions?

2000-11-10 Thread Michel Pelletier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Howdy Folks, > > I'm looking for man pages on these dtml functions? > > I'm finding it terribly difficult and frustration to figure out how to > properly program in dtml since I can't do a man on a funtion > (ie:man objectValues) and read about what parameters the f

Re: [Zope] How do I form an XML-RPC query to a remote server?

2000-11-15 Thread Michel Pelletier
Tony McDonald wrote: > > Hi all, > I'm experimenting with collating data from a remote database that uses > XML-RPC. > > I can send it messages like; > >>> import xmlrpclib > >>> medweb = xmlrpclib.Server("http://bogus.server.com") > >>> medweb.getImages('scar') > ' ?>\015\012\011\015\012\011\01

[Zope] The new Python Method renaming Poll

2000-11-16 Thread Michel Pelletier
http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/Scratch/Poll Hope Netscape doesn't mess up my formatting on the rest of this. The above link goes to the HTML version if it does! -Michel The New and Improved Python Method Poll We recently held a poll on Zope.org about renaming Python Methods. The p

Re: [Zope] The new Python Method renaming Poll

2000-11-16 Thread Michel Pelletier
Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: > > +---[ Michel Pelletier ]-- > | > | asking the question "Who is buried in Grant's tomb?". Duh. > > Perhaps for the non-americans, someone can tell us why the answer to this is > 'nobody.'

Re: [Zope] Still More Problems On the Install...

2000-11-19 Thread Michel Pelletier
Ben Ocean wrote: > > At 11:14 AM 11/19/2000 -0500, you wrote: > >Are you sure you need the source version? The binary is easier to install. > > Well, that *was* easier (now that I figured out which is which). First of > all, apologies to all you hard-core techies for whom this is so easy, *but*.

Re: [Zope] DC request re: Objection to Python Script Name

2000-11-24 Thread Michel Pelletier
Ron Bickers wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Chris Withers wrote: > > > To Hamish, the other Chris, and anyone else who's going to jump in on > > this. > > > > To be quite blunt, this has now been _decided_ as I understand it. So > > it's pointless to keep arguing and suggesting new and different

Re: [Zope] Objection to Python Script Name

2000-11-24 Thread Michel Pelletier
Jason Cunliffe wrote: > > 2. Fixes the OReilly book in some sensible manner - add highly legible note > on Page 1, update the index in useful manner to catch the differences. Oh I'll be doing that one, no worries there. > 3. Will explain to me 100% clearly what difference there is now between

Re: [Zope] Newbie Question Fixed but continuing.

2000-11-24 Thread Michel Pelletier
Dany Rioux wrote: > > Thanks Philipp and Jim, > > It worked! But... (there's always a but! :) I thought I was clever > when I thought about naming my news files news999, news998 etc, > thinking it would parse the directory and print the news sorted by > their names. So news998 would be printed b

Re: [Zope] newbie question: Redirect from Python?

2000-11-27 Thread Michel Pelletier
Paul Winkler wrote: > > seb bacon wrote: > > > > * Paul Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001127 19:54]: > > > I want the user to be sent to a particular URL after calling the > > > product's manage_add method. How can I do that? > > > The URL I want is REQUEST['URL3']. > > > > > > I've tried RESPONSE

Re: [Zope] context in Python Script

2000-11-28 Thread Michel Pelletier
Chris Gray wrote: > > I still can't get external Python Scripts to work as described in the Zope > Book. I am using the version of Python Scripts from the public > CVS. Internal Scripts work fine, but I can't seem to use the > "context" object in an external script. > > def tryContext(): >

[Zope] Python Script and O'Reilly Book

2000-11-28 Thread Michel Pelletier
Hi folks, We get quite a bit of mail about how the book and Python Scripts don't make sense with each other any more. We're aware of a couple issues: o The Book says "Python Method" and documents the version in CVS o The current release of "Python Methods" does not work with the book examples,

Re: [Zope] Python method: recursive function gives NameError

2000-11-28 Thread Michel Pelletier
Willem Broekema wrote: > > I have a simple recursive function in a Python method that gives a > NameError (2.2.4 on Win98). > > The function (in PM named 'rec'): > --- > def myfunc(i): > if i >= 10: return myfunc(1) > else: return 1 > > return myfunc(11) > --- > > The end of the traceback:

Re: [Zope] AND operator and ZCatalog

2000-11-28 Thread Michel Pelletier
The Doctor What wrote: > > * Dieter Maurer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001127 17:31]: > > Bak @ kedai writes: > > > i have a ZCatalog that indexes news. i use keyword index, and text index. > > > when i try > > > > > > > > > . > > > it seems that the search was ORed, not ANDed. > > > > >

Re: [Zope] ZCatalog and LoginManager - be aware.

2000-11-28 Thread Michel Pelletier
Oliver Bleutgen wrote: > > Hi, > > I just wanted to mention a IMO bad pitfall when using ZCatalog, for > the sake of sparing others some time. > > I'm running Zope 2.2.2 with LoginManager with SQL in a subfolder and was getting > the following error when trying to find dtml-documents into ZCat

Re: [Zope] Problem with "Python Script" in Zope-2.2.x-to-2.2.4-win32-x86.tgz or in my brain???

2000-11-27 Thread Michel Pelletier
Max M wrote: > > I just upgraded Zope on my Win 2K machine with > Zope-2.2.x-to-2.2.4-win32-x86.tgz But I cannot find "Python Methods" or > "Python Scripts" anywhere. Is it me being stupid or is the product missing > from that tarball?? Python Scripts will not be included in Zope until the 2.3 r

Re: [Zope] IP address and US city name

2000-12-02 Thread Michel Pelletier
Hung Jung Lu wrote: > > >From: Bill Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Hung Jung Lu wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I know that IP addresses in the USA follow a strict pattern of > >geographical > > > locations. (Most other countries don't do that.) Does anyone know where > >I > > > can get a cop

Re: [Zope] Installation and Startup

2000-12-02 Thread Michel Pelletier
Norm LaDuke wrote: > > I have installed Zope on a 300Mhz K6 machine with 92 Megs of RAM running Windows > 98. It seemed to install ok except that it didn't ask if I wanted to run as a > service (as the documentation said it would). Could you point out to me, precisely, where the documentation sa

Re: [Zope] Public CVS Zope won't compile (fwd)

2000-12-03 Thread Michel Pelletier
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Chris Gray wrote: > Did a fresh checkout but "python w_pcgi.py" chokes at: > > Writing the pcgi resource file (ie cgi script), > /home/cpgray/zope_cvs_run/Zope2/Zope.cgi > chmod 0755 /home/cpgray/zope_cvs_run/Zope2/Zope.cgi > Traceback (innermost last): > File "w_pcgi.py"

Re: [Zope] Patch to avoid hypenation variables and more

2000-12-04 Thread Michel Pelletier
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Tino Wildenhain wrote: > Hi there, > > finally I want to release my patch for the in-tag. I hope > it finds its way into the source-tree. > I was sick writing such ugly constructs as _[_['sequence-item']] > and so on, so I patched DT_In.py and DT_InSV.py > (in lib/python/Doc

[Zope] New version of book uploaded

2000-12-07 Thread Michel Pelletier
Greetings, Read this carefully, you may end up with a free, signed copy of the Zope book. That's right, Amos and I have just gotten done adding all kinds of new stuff to the book, and in particular we made quite a few changed from "Python Method" to "Python Script". This was a task more subtle

Re: [Zope] New version of book uploaded

2000-12-07 Thread Michel Pelletier
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, jimbo wrote: > > I meant to paste this link in the last posting. I had the wrong title. > http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2000-December/036772.html > > > And when do I get my book? Slow down jimbo I haven't even eaten dinner yet! We got yer submission. > And can

Re: [Zope] New version of book uploaded

2000-12-08 Thread Michel Pelletier
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Bak@kedai wrote: > On Friday 08 December 2000 09:07, Michel Pelletier wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > Read this carefully, you may end up with a free, signed copy of the Zope > > book. > > > > as ypu said, this whole chapter still use

Re: [Zope] Failed upgrade to 2.2.4 - solutions?

2000-12-08 Thread Michel Pelletier
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Luke Tymowski wrote: > Hello, > > I've just tried and failed to upgrade to 2.2.4 from 2.2.2. A python > instance starts up and slowly swallows the CPU, ending with 99% of the > CPU. A second python instance starts and doesn't do anything naughty. > > If I issue a ./st

Re: [Zope] Failed upgrade to 2.2.4 - solutions?

2000-12-08 Thread Michel Pelletier
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Luke Tymowski wrote: > Hello > > > To enable profiling, restart the Zope process with the environment > > variable PROFILE_PUBLISHER defined. The value of this variable should be > > the full system path to a file that will be used to dump a profile report > > when

Re: [Zope] ZPublisher and func(self,*args,**kw)

2000-12-09 Thread Michel Pelletier
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Andreas Jung wrote: > Inside a product I tried to replace the following function > >def myfunc(self,arg1='',arg2='',REQUEST=None): > > by > >def myfunc(self,*args,**kw): > > to get a more generic interface. However in every case "args" and "kw" are > empty when

[Zope] Signed Zope Book Winners

2000-12-11 Thread Michel Pelletier
Last week we announced a content to win free, signed copies of the book for finding errors in the book releated to calling a Script a Method. We have winners! Thanks folks, there are real bugs my eyes missed, and we've fixed them all. As soon as the book hits our local shelves, we'll get your

[Zope] ANNOUNCE: Zope 2.3.0 alpha 1 Documentation Release

2000-12-11 Thread Michel Pelletier
On the heels of Brian's announcement, we are gurgling with joy to announce a sychronized release of the Zope Book for the Zope 2.3 alpha release. http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/ZB/ This release marks the first time the book and Zope are "in sync" enough for you to be able to fully try out a

RE: [Zope] Last day of Month

2000-12-12 Thread Michel Pelletier
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Eric Walstad wrote: > Hi Paolo, > I have a Python Metho... er Python Script that I use that tells me the days > in each month. You pass in a Zope DateTime object as a parameter and it > returns the days in that month: > > Hope that helps. See, people used to post helpfu

Re: [Zope] ANNOUNCE: Zope 2.3.0 alpha 1 released...

2000-12-12 Thread Michel Pelletier
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Chris Withers wrote: > Brian Lloyd wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > As promised, Zope 2.3.0 alpha 1 is now available. You can > > download it from Zope.org: > > > > http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.3.0a1/ > > Cool :-) > > Any chance of a binary release for us

Re: [Zope] Perl Scripting in Zope

2000-12-15 Thread Michel Pelletier
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Mike Kelland wrote: > I've got about 3/4 of my application built in Zope (entirely in dtml > I'm afraid to say) but I'm reaching a point where it's difficult to > continue with only DTML (things like complicated database structures > and validation of input fields) and sinc

Re: [Zope] Editors [OT]

2001-01-25 Thread Michel Pelletier
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Chris Withers wrote: > My wishlist would be: > > - Runs nicely on NT4 XEmacs > - Syntax highlighting for Python, C, XML, HTML (and, although this is dreamworld > stuff, DTML ;-) XEmacs > - FTP or WebDAV editing built in as standard (or alternative solution, like > cadave

Re: [Zope] PythonScripts documentation

2001-01-26 Thread Michel Pelletier
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Gerald Gutierrez wrote: > > Where is the latest documentation for PythonScripts located? The closest I > found is > > http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/PythonMethod > > but it is dated and contains minimal information. > > I'm specifically interested in what I can do with the