Re: [Zope-dev] Please Help!!! - HelpSys

2000-05-24 Thread Chris Withers
Lena wrote: I actually need to create a simple web-editor, something very similar to HelpSys, but I need to link tree items to the folders I create dynamically in Zope. I'd suggest looking at the ZWiki Product, it may be exactly what you want: http://www.zope.org/Members/simon/ZWiki cheers,

Re: [Zope-dev] Session Objects?

2000-05-24 Thread Stuart 'Zen' Bishop
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Adam Pawliuk wrote: Although there is several user characteristics that we would like to store in a session object cached in server RAM, such as the user's unique system ID, greeting name, etc; rather than having to hit the DB for this information on each request.

[Zope-dev] zpatterns: rackmountables must be of-wrapped

2000-05-24 Thread Jephte CLAIN
Hello, I believe items got from a rack have to be wrapped in context of the rack. I've been bitten by this (and it hurts!). When I try to use items from DTML, only the superuser can use it, even managers can't access the objects. When I wrap the items in the context of the rack, everything is

[Zope-dev] ZCatalog and Unique IDs

2000-05-24 Thread Chris Withers
Hi, I hope this is a stupid question but why does ZCatalog use the URL of an object to uniquely identify it? Why not just use a reference to the object? Persistent object identifiers must exist for the ZODB so why not use them instead? cheers, Chris PS: This would solve all the problems with

Re: [Zope-dev] ZCVS Mixin class... feedback sought.

2000-05-24 Thread Steve Spicklemire
Hi Chris, The basic idea is that you can export individual zope objects in a container to the filesystem, not to the 'var' directory, but to a directory under CVS control. Then you can commit, update, add, remove etc files (each of which is the xml representation of a zope object) and

Re: [Zope-dev] zpatterns: rackmountables must be of-wrapped

2000-05-24 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 05:33 PM 5/24/00 +0400, Jephte CLAIN wrote: Hello, I believe items got from a rack have to be wrapped in context of the rack. I've been bitten by this (and it hurts!). When I try to use items from DTML, only the superuser can use it, even managers can't access the objects. When I wrap the

Re: [Zope-dev] Problems with LoginManager form-based login

2000-05-24 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 05:24 PM 5/24/00 +0300, Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote: "Phillip J. Eby" wrote: Make your root acl_users a LoginManager, with the loginForm there. LoginManager will only allow "Anonymous" to log in if it is the root acl_users. This is how standard user folders behave, and *have to* because

Re: [Zope-dev] Problems with LoginManager form-based login

2000-05-24 Thread Kevin Dangoor
- Original Message - From: "Phillip J. Eby" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Itamar Shtull-Trauring" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 9:59 AM Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] Problems with LoginManager form-based login Make your root acl_users a LoginManager, with the

[Zope-dev] Re: ZCatalog and Unique IDs

2000-05-24 Thread Michel Pelletier
Chris Withers wrote: Hi, I hope this is a stupid question but why does ZCatalog use the URL of an object to uniquely identify it? Because it's unique. Why not just use a reference to the object? How do you define that? If you mean reference in the strictly python sense, then I

Re: [Zope-dev] [Fwd: ZCatalog.. Again.. I know..]

2000-05-24 Thread Chris Withers
Michel Pelletier wrote: I'm looking into this right now... Many thanks :-) As you may have gathered from my posts, I've been having a bit of a ZCatalog/SiteAccess (not to mention MIME) nightmare today... ...I took a day off work to try and get Squishdot 0.4.0 out and have spent the day

[Zope-dev] Re: ZCVS Mixin class... feedback sought.

2000-05-24 Thread Chris Withers
Jerry Spicklemire wrote: [snip] Steve, please clarify any of the concepts I've managed to mangle! Now this sounds like something I waffled about a few weeks back... ...cool :-) I don't think I'm gonna have a chance to play though :S I'll jump in at 1.0.0 though and I'm there in spirit now

Re: [Zope-dev] ZCVS Mixin class... feedback sought.

2000-05-24 Thread Steve Spicklemire
Hi Jerry, (in case you're wondering.. Jerry really *is* my brother..) "JS" == Jerry Spicklemire [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JS Chris Withers wrote: Sounds like a cool idea, but I don't really understand what it does and how you use it. Could you give use some

Re: [Zope-dev] ZCVS Mixin class... feedback sought.

2000-05-24 Thread Shane Hathaway
Steve Spicklemire wrote: Hope that helps It's really shocking just how easy it was to do this makes me wonder why it hasn't been done already, and *that* makes me wonder if I'm doing something really dumb here. ;-) It seems kinda cool to me. I find that the same phenomenon keeps

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

2000-05-24 Thread Lindell Alderman
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? -L ___ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or

Re: [Zope-dev] ZCVS Mixin class... feedback sought.

2000-05-24 Thread Jonothan Farr
Just curious. How do you do diffs? How do you resolve conflicts? How do you handle login/logout? --jfarr "Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse." Larry Wall, 14 Oct 1998 ___ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Zope-dev] Observer / Notification Interface Proposal

2000-05-24 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 07:19 PM 5/24/00 -0400, Tres Seaver wrote: I have started a page for an implementation of the GangOfFour Observer pattern within Zope: URL http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/Projects/Interfaces/ObserverAndNotificat ion Please comment, either here or in the wiki. Is this only for events

Re: [Zope-dev] Observer / Notification Interface Proposal

2000-05-24 Thread Tres Seaver
"Phillip J. Eby" wrote: Is this only for events occurring within a transaction, or across transactions? If across transactions, how do you intend to handle persistent references, acquisition, and cross-database references? (My suggestion would be to use a path to the callable.) Note that

Re: [Zope-dev] ZCVS Mixin class... feedback sought.

2000-05-24 Thread Jonothan Farr
Good questions! You can just go to the 'admin' tab and type 'diff'. The admin tab lets you execute just about any cvs command with arguments stat, rtag etc etc. Doing a diff on a zexp file isn't going to be very helpful, though. Any thoughts on integrating some sort of xml diff

Re: [Zope-dev] FWIW, ZCVSMixin now at 0.0.2... and rising. ;-)

2000-05-24 Thread Michael Bernstein
Steve Spicklemire wrote: I've not heard any comments about the usefulness of this concept... am I barking up the wrong tree to get version control of zope objects? Does someone know of a better way? Steve, this has been my fondest hope for about three months now. Now, if I could also get it

Re: [Zope-dev] eat our own unsupported dog food

2000-05-24 Thread Michael Bernstein
Michel Pelletier wrote: There is a recent need for us to install ZDiscussions on Zope.org. I have verified that 0.1.0 works with 2.1.6, but I can't seem to d/l 0.2.0. The author of said software is not available, any one know the status on ZDiscussions? Has any one tweaked it? I found