Mailman 3 December 1999 - Python-announce-list

Open Source Web Development Platform Zope Embraced By
by Mike Pelletier Dec. 4, 1999

Dec. 4, 1999

Digital Creations, creator of Zope and the leader in Open Source web development, announced today that database management giant Sybase is giving support for the Zope web development platform. The partnership will allow Digital Creations to further integrate the Zope platform and Sybase, enabling Sybase users to leverage the power of the Linux operating system in conjunction with the Internet. The combination of these two powerful platforms will enable companies who are moving to Linux to dynamically manage their enterprise data and create world- class applications. For more information, see: http://www.digicool.com/News/Sybase -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------

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Zope and Microsoft Integrate Using Web Standards
by Mike Pelletier Dec. 4, 1999

Dec. 4, 1999

Digital Creations announced today increased interoperability between its Open Source Zope application server and Microsoft platforms using open standards. An early 2000 Zope release will include support for two protocols heavily supported by Microsoft, the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) protocol. More information is available at: http://www.digicool.com/News/integrate -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------

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Digital Creations and Fast Engines Team For Scalable Web
by Mike Pelletier Dec. 4, 1999

Dec. 4, 1999

Digital Creations, creator of Zope(TM) and the leader in Open Source web development, announced that it is partnering with Fast Engines, the leader in web server acceleration software, to provide commercial-grade scalability for the Zope web application server. The alliance will dramatically improve the ability of high-volume e-commerce sites to handle peak traffic flows. Because Fast Engines enables load balancing across a wide range of platforms, dynamic applications operating in a cross-platform server environment can function reliably, even at peak times with 'flash crowds'. More information is available at: http://www.digicool.com/News/FastEngines -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------

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Airline discounts to IPC8
by Barry A. Warsaw Dec. 4, 1999

Dec. 4, 1999

We've arranged for some great discounts on airfares to IPC8. For more information please see http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/local.html -Barry -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------

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ViewCVS: CVS Repository Viewing thru the Web
by Greg Stein Dec. 4, 1999

Dec. 4, 1999

I've just completed the initial release (0.1) of ViewCVS. This (Python-based) CGI script allows you to browse your CVS repository's directories, change logs, and specific file revisions. It will display diffs between revisions (in several formats) and has support for CVS tags and branches. The software is based on the "cvsweb" Perl script by Henner Zeller. It is nearly identical in function at the moment, but will begin to diverge as I start adding features. The script and information is available at: http://www.lyra.org/greg/python/viewcvs/ Please feel free to send questions, problems, and suggestions to me. Cheers, -g == Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/ <P><A HREF="http://www.lyra.org/greg/python/viewcvs/">ViewCVS 0.1</A> - a (Python-based) CGI script for browsing CVS repositories; currently mostly identical to the (Perl-based) "cvsweb" script, but will add features in the future. (03-Dec-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------

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Zope 2.1.0 final has been released
by Brian Lloyd Dec. 4, 1999

Dec. 4, 1999

Hi all, Digital Creations is happy to announce that Zope 2.1.0 final has been released! This release includes many bug fixes, performance and reliability improvements and a number of new features since 2.0.1, including the beginnings of internationalization support, FastCGI support and relevance ranking for ZCatalog. For more infomation on what's new in 2.1.0, see the file CHANGES.txt in the Zope distribution or on the Zope 2.1.0 download site: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.1.0/ Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com <P><A HREF="http://www.zope.org/">Zope 2.1.0 final</A> - a free, open source web application platform used for building high-performance, dynamic web sites. (02-Dec-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------

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informixdb 1.3
by Stephen J. Turner Dec. 4, 1999

Dec. 4, 1999

Announcing ---------- Release 1.3 of informixdb, a DB-API 1.0 compliant package for Informix: http://starship.python.net/crew/sturner/informixdb.html This release fixes the 'fetch{one|many|all}' method output types and/or values for several SQL types: - FLOAT, SMALLFLOAT, DECIMAL and (for locales with trailing currency symbols) MONEY mapped to Long instead of Float. - MONEY (for locales with leading currency symbols) mapped to a NULL pointer, possibly crashing the interpreter. - DATE mapped to dbi.dbiDate (as it should), but always with a value of -1. - INT, SMALLINT and SERIAL mapped to Long instead of Int. <P><A HREF="http://starship.python.net/crew/sturner/informixdb.html">informixdb 1.3</A> - an implementation of the Python Database API for the Informix RDBMS. (02-Dec-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------

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A Date With Tim Peters...
by Guido van Rossum Dec. 2, 1999

Dec. 2, 1999

Did you ever wonder what Tim Peters looks like? Have you ever wanted proof that he's not a runaway AI project or a secret alias for the Benevolent Dictator? Now's your chance. Come to the Python Conference in Washington DC and meet Tim, Guido and the rest of the Python crowd for four days of intense Pythoneering. Some program highlights: - 8 tutorials on topics ranging from JPython to Fnorb; - a keynote by Open Source evangelist Eric Raymond; - another by Randy Pausch, father of the Alice Virtual Reality project; - a separate track for Zope developers and users; - live demonstrations of important Python applications; - refereed papers, and short talks on current topics; - a developers' day where the feature set of Python 2.0 is worked out. Come and join us at the Key Bridge Marriott in Rosslyn (across the bridge from Georgetown), January 24-27 in 2000. Make the Python conference the first conference you attend in the new millennium! The early bird registration deadline is January 5. Don't wait till the last moment, register before Christmas! More info: http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/ Conference motto (due to Bruce Eckel): "Life's better without braces." --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------

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Zope Weekly News - Wed, 1 Dec 1999
by Mike Pelletier Dec. 2, 1999

Dec. 2, 1999

G'day, Zope Weekly News is a digest of some of the useful and interesting events which have occurred on the various Zope mailing lists and the Zope.org site. It is published each Wednesday evening. Somewhat quiet this week, as much of the Zope community struggles to deal with turkey overload. New Products and Announcements * "gaaros" released a new product called FSSession. It allows you to store per-session information on the filesystem. http://www.zope.org/Members/gaaros/FSSession Updates * "anthony" updated his SQLSessions product. SQLSessions uses SQL databases to store information on a per-session basis. http://www.zope.org/Members/anthony/software/SQLSession/sqlsession_v_0_2_2_n ews * "MikeP" updated the ZDiscussions product. This release adds a preview function and makes customisation at the instance level much easier. http://www.zope.org/Members/MikeP/ZDiscussions Zope.org items * Paul Everitt has published a page with Zope logos and a ZIP file containing EPS versions. http://www.zope.org/Images/Logos.html * "TheJester" has posted a How-to on getting the SybaseDA working on FreeBSD, with patches. http://www.zope.org/Members/TheJester/SybaseDA * "hippy" has submitted a How-to explaining the use of the GenericUserFolder product to store authentication information in an SQL database. http://www.zope.org/Members/hippy/GUF_SQL_crypt * "Amos" wrote a How-to about using ZPublisher and ZServer to publish arbitrary Python modules. If you remember Bobo, this will be familiar. http://www.zope.org/Members/Amos/ZPublisher Notable Discussions * Paul Everitt put out a call for Zope Solution Providers to participate in a referral program. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014717.html * "FR Chalaoux" <chalaoux(a)cybercable.fr> announced the creation of Zope France to provide a place for Francophone Zope users to meet. Please send email for more information. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014701.html * Scott Robertson <sroberts(a)codeit.com> of CodeIt Computing has put out a call for full-time developers. CodeIt is located in southern California. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014653.html * Arjan Scherpenisse put out feelers for non-web based Zope management clients. Stephen Pitts offers a lead. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014651.html * The high volume of the Zope lists has become a topic again. Suggestions have been made to start a Zope newsgroup, but many believe that would only aggravate the problem by inviting more off-topic, spammy and flammable posts. Some have suggested a private (as in open but not part of USENET), gatewayed server. So far, no one has stepped up to the plate by producing one. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014608.html http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014611.html http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014613.html == Mike Pelletier. -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------

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Sketch 0.6.3 - A vector drawing program
by Bernhard Herzog Dec. 1, 1999

Dec. 1, 1999

Sketch 0.6.3 - A vector drawing program Sketch is a vector drawing program for Linux and other unices. It's intended to be a flexible and powerful tool for illustrations, diagrams and other purposes. Despite the low version number, it already has advanced features like gradients, text along a path and clip masks and is fully scriptable due to its implementation in a combination of Python and C. Summary of the changes since version 0.6.2: * The default properties of new objects can be set by pressing the apply button in the fill, line or font dialogs. * A new button next to the palette to quickly assing empty fill and line styles. * The ctrl-key to contrain editing now also works when drawing lines and bezier curves and when editing bezier curves. * various small improvements and bug fixes Homepage: --------- http://www.online.de/home/sketch Features: --------- o Drawing primitives: o Rectangles o Ellipses o Bezier curves o Bitmap images: JPEG, GIF,... (all types the Python Imaging Library can read) o Encapsulated PostScript o Text o All objects, including images and text, can be rotated, scaled, sheared, etc. (all affine transformations are possible) o Gradient fills o Special Effects and Features: o Use rectangles, ellipses and bezier objects as guides o Blend Groups: Automatically updated interpolations of arbitrary objects o Text can be converted to bezier objects. o Text along Path o Exports Encapsulated PostScript, SVG and Adobe Illustrator files o Imports Adobe Illustrator, Corel CMX, SVG, XFig and WMF files o Fully scriptable in Python For more information, have a look at the sketch webpage. License: -------- Sketch is released under GNU Library General Public License. <P><A HREF="http://www.online.de/home/sketch">Sketch 0.6.3</A> - a vector drawing program for Unix written in Python. (01-Dec-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------

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