[Zope] FYI: Zope Weekly News

[Amos Latteier]

Hello there,

  Two new Zope releases were announced this week, 2.0a2 and 1.10.3b1. In
addition, there were announcements on other exciting Zope projects, and
the volume on the Zope mailing lists continued at high levels. There's
so much activity in Zope land that people are starting to talk about
splitting the Zope lists again.

  * Zope 2.0 a2 was released. This release is the second alpha source
release of Zope 2. Many bugs were fixed, including an important memory
leak, and a few new features were added including an experimental DTML
syntax. We're getting closer to a Zope 2 beta release, but there's still
a ways to go.

  http://www.zope.org/Download/Releases/Zope-2.0.0a2

  * Zope 1.10.3b1 was released. This is a maintenance release for Zope
1.10.2 and mainly plugs a memory leak.

  http://www.zope.org/Download/Releases/Zope-1.10.3b1/
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005361.html

  * Butch Landingin announced his "Squishdot" Slashdot clone Zope
product. There's also a Squishdot demo site.

  http://members.tripod.com/squishdot/index.html
  http://www.libc.org/Community
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005241.html

  * Alexander Staubo announced a client ISAPI extension for Zope which
allows efficient communication between IIS 4.0 and Zope.
 
  http://www.mop.no/~alex/download/zisapi-0.1.zip
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005370.html

  * Another Zope job posting appeared.

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005494.html

  * Python luminary Jody Winston announced that he is available for Zope
contracting work.

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005577.html

  * Alex Rice announced that a New Mexico Zope User's Group is forming.

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005427.html

  * Jules Allen posted a draft of a short Zope tutorial for review.

  http://zdp.zope.org/test/jules/navbar_howto_html
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005290.html

  * Pavlos Christoforou announced an HTML to PDF Zope product.

  http://starship.python.net/crew/pavlos/
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005535.html

  * There was a lot of discussion about DTML syntax and how to improve
it. The tone was particularly level-headed this time round. One upshot
of the discussion was an announcement of an experimental new DTML syntax
for Zope 2.0a2, and the goal of creating some kind of Python Method
object which is editable through the web.

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005350.html
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005357.html
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005621.html
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/005574.html

See you next week.

-Amos

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Amos Latteier         mailto:amos@digicool.com
Digital Creations     http://www.digicool.com