From: Amos Latteier <Amos@digicool.com> To: "'editor@lwn.net'" <editor@lwn.net>, "'zope@zope.org'" <zope@zope.org> Subject: FYI: Zope Weekly News Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:51:27 -0400 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 -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com