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The A-A-P project offers awards
by Bram Moolenaar July 4, 2003

July 4, 2003

Aap version 1.0 has been released. The next version should be even more powerful, faster, reliable and simpler to use. If you help making this possible you will not only receive appreciation from Aap users, but have a chance to make money as well! AWARDS 444 euro for the best contribution to the A-A-P project 222 euro for the most useful patch for Aap or Agide 111 euro for the brightest idea for the A-A-P project THE RULES - The "best contribution" can be anything that helps the progress of the A-A-P project or improves the usability of Aap and/or Agide. - The "most useful patch" can be for fixing a long standing bug, adding support for a specific compiler, a port to another system, etc. - The "brightest idea" is a suggestion for a useful addition to the A-A-P project or for improving Aap or Agide without the need for an actual implementation. - Contributions are to be sent to the A-A-P-develop maillist. No specific format is required. Everybody contributing to A-A-P automatically becomes a potential award winner. - You may submit as many times as you like. All contributions must go under the GNU GPL. - The closing date is September 30, 2003. The winners will be announced on the A-A-P web site in October 2003. - The selection of the award winners will be done by Bram Moolenaar, the A-A-P project leader. - The money is provided by the NLnet foundation. A-A-P AT THE O'REILLY CONFERENCE Bram Moolenaar will do a presentation on Aap on July 10 at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland. See: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2003/view/e_sess/4026 There is also a BOF session about the A-A-P project: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2003/view/e_sess/4348 You are welcome to join a discussion about the future of Aap. WHAT IS AAP? The Aap program is make on steroids. It does everything that other build systems do, has a powerful script language build-in and has integrated internet support. You can use it to: - Build a program, on multiple platforms and in several variants - Download a file the moment it is needed - Maintain a web site (Aap is used for the Vim web site) - Download and install an application (like FreeBSD ports) - Obtain a module from CVS, update files in CVS - Generate and filter files - And much more Most of these things can be done with an Aap recipe of just a few lines. Have a look at the examples: http://www.a-a-p.org/examples.html. The Aap recipe works better than a Makefile in many ways: - Uses signatures to avoid trouble with timestamps; restoring an old version of a source file causes recompiling - Integrated support for up- and downloading - Integrated support for CVS (other version control systems can be added) - Python script can be used for more complicated tasks - Reduces the need for shell scripts, improves portability - Messages are brief, a log file contains the details - Automatically figures out dependencies for C programs - Simple syntax: mostly like a Makefile but avoids the need for line continuation backslashes, spaces in a file name are possible - Good support for a project with multiple directories Aap is written in Python. It runs on any Unix, MS-Windows and Mac OS X system with Python 1.5 or later, WHAT IS THE A-A-P PROJECT? A-A-P makes it easy to locate, download, build and install software. It also supports browsing source code, developing programs, managing different versions and distribution of software and documentation. This means that A-A-P is useful both for users and for developers. A-A-P currently consists of the Aap program and Agide, the A-A-P GUI IDE. Agide makes it possible for existing tools to work together. For example: to use Vim with gdb for debugging, lookup remote documentation with the cross referencer, preview a TeX file, etc. Aap is now stable. Agide is still in the development phase. A-A-P is open source under the GNU GPL. LINKS Home page: http://www.a-a-p.org Manual HTML: http://www.a-a-p.org/exec/index.html Manual PDF: http://www.a-a-p.org/exec/exec.pdf Maillists: http://www.a-a-p.org/maillist.html Freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/a-a-p/ -- This is the polymorph virus! Follow these instructions carefully: 1. Send this message to everybody you know. 2. Format your harddisk. Thank you for your cooperation in spreading the most powerful virus ever! /// Bram Moolenaar -- Bram(a)Moolenaar.net -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// Creator of Vim - Vi IMproved -- http://www.Vim.org \\\ \\\ Project leader for A-A-P -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ Help AIDS victims, buy here: http://ICCF-Holland.org/click1.html ///

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Scratchy 0.6 - An Apache access_log file parser and HTML report generator
by stuff＠nonpoint.mailzilla.net July 4, 2003

July 4, 2003

http://scratchy.sourceforge.net Changes since 0.5: * Added country name lookup support * Added COUNTRY_CACHE config file option (please read the important note). * Code cleanup. Created a FileBase class that file_tracker, dns_cache all derive from. and country_cache * template files are now configurable * Each chart can be disabled (default is enabled) * Added accessed files table * Added CHARSET_ENCODING to config. * Added additional file types (swf, ra, pdf, php) * Addressed issue with ylabel_density in chart output * Added additional browsers, robots and search engines * Added some additional search engines * Added additional robots * Fixed daily chart display if days > 25 * Fixed report since it was ignoring preferences for search phrases/keywords * Erroneously reporting "Unix" as operating system for all X11 derivatives. * Fixed bug in creating summary when gdchart was not installed. * Added config file option for CHART_HEIGHT * Catches chart draw() exceptions * makedirs no longer produces information if dirs already exist * Added /usr/bin/env python to parse.py and report.py * File types are truncated to atmost 10 chars. About Scratchy Scratchy is a set of scripts to parse Apache web server log files and extract useful information. From this data, Scratchy will create HTML reports so that website administrators can easily view the information and determine trends and their typical audience. Scratchy began as a proof-of-concept which allowed me to compile stats about my personal website. As time progressed I continually added features and improvements and I felt that it was now at a point that it would be useful to others. Why Scratchy? Well, the name of the project of course comes from the Simpsons "Itchy and Scratchy Show". The functionality that the project aims to supply is a complete log parsing and report generating tool. Also, there seemed to be a need for such a project in Python. I have seen some other Apache log parsers but they were developed in other languages (such as Perl, C, etc). One goal of this project is for it to be extensible, to that tune, most of the report appearance can be easily modified by tweaking a single config file. What information does Scratchy report? * Accessed web pages * hosts accessing your website * operating systems * browsers * search engines * robots/spiders * file types accessed * errors * countries * a trace of pages accessed by each ip address (if enabled). * charts are produced for many of the tables (if enabled) http://scratchy.sourceforge.net

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ANN: 4Suite 1.0a3
by Uche Ogbuji July 4, 2003

July 4, 2003

Today we release 1.0 alpha 3, now available from Sourceforge and ftp.4suite.org. 1.0a3 replaces the last release, 1.0a2, which had some files missing, and has been withdrawn. 4Suite is a comprehensive platform for XML and RDF processing, with base libraries and a server framework. It is implemented in Python and C, and provides Python and XSLT APIs, Web and command line interfaces. For general information, see: http://4suite.org http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/4Suite/ http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/akara/nodes/2003-01-01/pyxml-akara For the files, see: ftp://ftp.4suite.org/pub/4Suite/ Sources: ftp://ftp.4suite.org/pub/4Suite/4Suite-1.0a3.tar.gz Windows installer: ftp://ftp.4suite.org/pub/4Suite/4Suite-1.0a3.win32-py2.1.exe ftp://ftp.4suite.org/pub/4Suite/4Suite-1.0a3.win32-py2.2.exe ftp://ftp.4suite.org/pub/4Suite/4Suite-1.0a3.win32-py2.3.exe Windows zip: ftp://ftp.4suite.org/pub/4Suite/4Suite-1.0a3.zip You can also get the files on Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/foursuite/ https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=39954 IMPORTANT alpha release notes -- If you have built a 4Suite repository using an older version of 4Suite, you will probably have to make adjustments for this new release. If you used 0.12.0a3, or a more recent version, then it should suffice to recompile all stylesheets for each repository instance: 4ss_manager recompile In any case, see the following document for more details: http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/akara/nodes/2003-01-01/backup There has been some progress with builds on Mac OS X in this release. See http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/akara/nodes/2003-01-01/osx Please offer any suggestions on the mailing list. -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com XML Data Bindings in Python, Part 2 - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/07/02/py-xml.html Introducing Examplotron - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xmptron/ Charming Jython - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jython.html Python, Web services, and XSLT - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/ws-pyth13/ A custom-fit career in app development - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=7744

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Recent articles on Python
by Uche Ogbuji July 3, 2003

July 3, 2003

Using SAX for Proper XML Output http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/03/12/py-xml.html Explains how to use Python SAX libraries to generate proper XML output from Python programs. [Mar. 12, 2003] Gems From the Archives http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/04/09/py-xml.html Hunts for treasures in the archives of the Python XML SIG, locating interesting tidbits for producing and displaying XML. [Apr. 9, 2003] Charming Jython http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jython.html Introduces Jython, the 100% Pure Java implementation of the Python programming language, which combines the advantages of Python and the Java virtual machine and library and serves as a handy complement to the Java platform. [May 6, 2003] Using libxml in Python http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/05/14/py-xml.html Introduces libxml's Python bindings. [May. 14, 2003] XML Data Bindings in Python http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/06/11/py-xml.html Considers Python data bindings for XML, including generateDS, a script which builds Python bindings from a WXS instance. [Jun. 11, 2003] The power of three: Python, Web services, and XSLT (with Mike Olson) http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/ws-pyth13/ Looks at using the Python XSLT API for Web services development. [Jun. 30, 2003] XML Data Bindings in Python, Part 2 http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/07/02/py-xml.html Second part of series on XML data binding tools in Python, examining the XML data binding library which is part of David Mertz's Gnosis Utils. [Jul. 2, 2003] -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com XML Data Bindings in Python - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/06/11/py-xml.html Introducing Examplotron - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xmptron/ Charming Jython - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jython.html The commons of creativity - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think18.html A custom-fit career in app development - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=7744

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OSCON lightning talks -- submit yours now!
by Guido van Rossum July 2, 2003

July 2, 2003

We still have a few lightning talk slots open for the Python conference at OSCON (the O'Reilly Open Source Conference, July 7-11 in Portland, Oregon -- http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2003/ ). A lightning talk is a presentation of no more than 5 minutes (we'll have a gong!) on any subject that you think might interest Python users or developers. The Python lightning talks session is Thursday afternoon (July 10) from 4:30 till 6 pm. To submit your proposal, send email to David Ascher <DavidA(a)ActiveState.com> with "lightning" in the subject. He'll be accepting proposals until late in the game (even in person at the conference), but slots will be assigned first-come first-serve, so don't wait too long! If you've never heard of lightning talks, you can find out more information at: http://perl.plover.com/lt/osc2003/lightning-talks.html But ignore the submission informations on that site, just send email to David as explained above. See you in Portland, Guido and David --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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ANN: 4Suite 1.0a2
by Uche Ogbuji July 2, 2003

July 2, 2003

Today we release of 1.0 alpha 2, now available from Sourceforge and ftp.4suite.org. 4Suite is a comprehensive platform for XML and RDF processing, with base libraries and a server framework. It is implemented in Python and C, and provides Python and XSLT APIs, Web and command line interfaces. For general information, see: http://4suite.org http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/4Suite/ http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/akara/nodes/2003-01-01/pyxml-akara For the files, see: ftp://ftp.4suite.org/pub/4Suite/ Sources: ftp://ftp.4suite.org/pub/4Suite/4Suite-1.0a2.tar.gz Windows installer: ftp://ftp.4suite.org/pub/4Suite/4Suite-1.0a2.win32-py2.1.exe ftp://ftp.4suite.org/pub/4Suite/4Suite-1.0a2.win32-py2.2.exe ftp://ftp.4suite.org/pub/4Suite/4Suite-1.0a2.win32-py2.3.exe Windows zip: ftp://ftp.4suite.org/pub/4Suite/4Suite-1.0a2.zip You can also get the files on Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/foursuite/ https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=39954 IMPORTANT alpha release notes ----------------------------- If you have built a 4Suite repository using an older version of 4Suite, you will probably have to make adjustments for this new release. If you used 0.12.0a3, or a more recent version, then it should suffice to recompile all stylesheets for each repository instance: 4ss_manager recompile In any case, see the following document for more details: http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/akara/nodes/2003-01-01/backup There has been some progress with builds on Mac OS X in this release. See http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/akara/nodes/2003-01-01/osx Please offer any suggestions on the mailing list. -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com XML Data Bindings in Python - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/06/11/py-xml.html Introducing Examplotron - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xmptron/ Charming Jython - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jython.html The commons of creativity - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think18.html A custom-fit career in app development - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=7744

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eGenix mxODBC Zope DA for FreeBSD
by M.-A. Lemburg July 1, 2003

July 1, 2003

_______________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENT EGENIX.COM mxODBC Zope Database Adapter Version 1.0.6 Beta 1 for FreeBSD 4.8 _______________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION The eGenix mxODBC Zope Database Adapter (Zope DA) allows you to easily connect your Zope installation to just about any database backend on the market today, giving you the reliability of the commercially supported eGenix.com product mxODBC and the flexibility of the ODBC standard as middle-tier architecture. One Interface on all Platforms... Unlike Zope's ZODBC Zope DA, the mxODBC Zope DA works on Windows XP/NT/2000/98/95, Linux, Solaris and now FreeBSD using the same interface on all platforms High Performance... The mxODBC Zope DA implements thread-safe connection pooling and multiple physical connects per logical Zope connection. You can safely run Z SQL Methods in parallel, achieving a much better performance than ZODBC Zope DA or similar Zope database adapters under heavy load. This makes it ideal for deployment in Zope Clusters and Zope hosting environments where stability and high performance are a top priority. _______________________________________________________________________ BETA TESTING Please report any bugs you find to support(a)egenix.com. Evaluation licenses can be had from licenses(a)egenix.com. _______________________________________________________________________ MORE INFORMATION For more information on the mxODBC Zope DA, licensing and download instructions, please visit our web-site: http://www.egenix.com/ You can buy mxODBC Zope DA licenses online from the eGenix.com shop at: http://shop.egenix.com/ _______________________________________________________________________ Thank you, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Software directly from the Source (#1, Jul 01 2003) >>> Python/Zope Products & Consulting ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2003-07-01: Released mxODBC Zope DA for FreeBSD 1.0.6 beta 1

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