Mailman 3 May 2004 - Python-announce-list

ANN: uid.py 1.0.2 -- Configurable unique ID generation
by Erik Max Francis 20 May '04

20 May '04

Summary Configurable unique ID generation. Overview Provided is an implementation of a "unique" ID (UID) generator in Python. The implementation does not follow UUID or GUID standards, but rather uses available system, host, user, shell environment, process, and other ephemeral information fed into a hasher (by default MD5) to generate the UID. The system is designed to be used both as a standalone application and as a module. The data used to be fed into the hash, as well as the hashing mechanism itself, can be overridden both through the command line and programmatically by importing the module. Getting the software The current version of uid is 1.0.2. The latest version of the software is available in a tarball here: http://www.alcyone.com/software/uid/uid-latest.tar.gz. The official URL for this Web site is http://www.alcyone.com/software/uid/. Requirements uid.py is intended to be used under UNIX and UNIX-like systems in Python 2.x. License This code is released under the GPL. -- __ Erik Max Francis && max(a)alcyone.com && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ / \ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis \__/ Nature likes to hide herself. -- Heraclitus

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Zope X3 3.0.0 alpha 1 released
by Stephan Richter 19 May '04

19 May '04

Dear Zope community, The Zope 3 development team is proud to announce the first alpha release of Zope X3 3.0.0. Zope X3 is the next major Zope release and has been written from scratch based on the latest software design patterns and the experiences of Zope 2. The "X" in the name stands for "experimental", since this release does not try to provide any backward-compatibility to Zope 2. Download http://zope.org/Products/ZopeX3 Distribution This release only requires Python 2.3.3 to run. Here are the steps envolved to get the tarball release working (will be later added to a readme file): - Unpack the release using:: tar xozf ZopeX3-3.0.0a1.tgz - Enter the new, unpacked directory and configure it:: ./configure --prefix=<zope-dir> You might also need the '--with-python=<Python executable>', if your Python is not in a standard path. - Execute 'make' and 'make install'. - Enter the 'zope' directory and create an instance:: bin/mkzopeinstance -d<instance dir> -u<username>:<password> - Enter the instance directory and try to run zope using 'bin/runzope'. Features Some of the new features include: - Zope 3 uses now ZODB 3.3. - Implementation of multi-adapters and multi-views. Instead of adapting only from one interface to another, one can now adapt many interfaces to another. - Preconditions and constraints on methods are supported now. This allows one to specify the type of objects a container can contain, for example. - Broken objects are now supported, when a particular class of an object is not found anymore. - An API documentation tool was added to provide full online documentation of the public APIs and ZCML. Once Zope 3 has been started, it is accessible under: http://localhost:8080/++apidoc++/ - A stateful tree implementation was added. It makes a lot of use of the component architecture and is therefore extremly flexible and configurable. - Implemented "Tools", an UI concept similar to the CMF that allows the developer to be more task oriented. - The Undo mechanism was reworked. - The concept of usage was removed. - The widget and form code has been simplified and multi-item fields/widgets are now easier to use. - Support for sessions was added. - The entire source tree was flattened. For a complete list of changes, see: http://svn.zope.org/Zope3/trunk/doc/CHANGES.txt?rev=24760&view=markup Contributors Jim Fulton, Marius Gedminas, Jeremy Hylton, Fred Drake, Sidnei da Silva, Philipp von Weitershausen, Steve Alexander, Andreas Jung, Anthony Baxter, Kevin Littlejohn, Stuart Bishop, Christian Theune, Adam Summers, Stephan Richter, Chris McDonough, Garrett Smith, Roger Ineichen, Gary Poster, Martijn Faassen, Dominik Huber, Bjorn Tillenius, Nathan Yergler, Dmitry Vasiliev, Michael Bernstein, Eckart Hertzler, Suresh Babu Eddala Thanks to everyone! Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student) Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training

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EuroPython 2004 Updates
by Michael Hudson 19 May '04

19 May '04

EuroPython 2004, being held June 7-9 in Göteborg, Sweden is now less than three weeks away! - Registration is open until 3 June at 23.00 CET: http://www.europython.org/conferences/epc2004/registration_html - The program is taking shape: http://www.europython.org/conferences/epc2004/info/talks/talkMatrix With four parallel tracks for three days, we believe this is the largest number of Python and Zope talks at any single event to date! - The first two EuroPython interviews of 2004 with Strakt CTO and conference organizer Jacob Hallèn and PyPy project founder and speaker Holger Krekel have been published: http://www.europython.org/interviews/ Don't miss out! Cheers, The EuroPython Team

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EuroPython 2004 Updates
by Michael Hudson 19 May '04

19 May '04

EuroPython 2004, being held June 7-9 in Göteborg, Sweden is now less than three weeks away! - Registration is open until 3 June at 23.00 CET: http://www.europython.org/conferences/epc2004/registration_html - The program is taking shape: http://www.europython.org/conferences/epc2004/info/talks/talkMatrix With four parallel tracks for three days, we believe this is the largest number of Python and Zope talks at any single event to date! - The first two EuroPython interviews of 2004 with Strakt CTO and conference organizer Jacob Hallèn and PyPy project founder and speaker Holger Krekel have been published: http://www.europython.org/interviews/ Don't miss out! Cheers, The EuroPython Team

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ANN: pyVideoIO
by Riccardo 19 May '04

19 May '04

Hello, after a long time I'm releasing my extension to read AVI files, QuickTime and connect to WebCameras under win32. I do not have much time to create a decent website by now, therefore I released the sources and a binary for python 2.3 just to be prompted to do more. If somebody will find this useful I'll be more than happy to add any contribution I receive. the URL is: www.geocities.com/rtrocca/python Well, sorry for the lack of more information, THe source package alsocontains the documentation. Take this as the first public release. It has been tested with python 2.2 and 2.3 Riccardo

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ANN: python-ldap-2.0.0
by Michael Ströder 18 May '04

18 May '04

Find a new pre-release of python-ldap: http://python-ldap.sourceforge.net/ python-ldap provides an object-oriented API to access LDAP directory servers from Python programs. It mainly wraps the OpenLDAP 2.x libs for that purpose. Additionally it contains modules for other LDAP-related stuff (e.g. processing LDIF, LDAPURLs and LDAPv3 schema). ---------------------------------------------------------------- Released 2.0.0 2004-05-18 Changes since 2.0.0pre21: ldif: * Empty records are simply ignored in ldif.LDIFWriter.unparse() Modules/: * New method result2() returns 3-tuple containing the msgid of the outstanding operation. ldap.ldapobject: * New _ldap wrapper method LDAPObject.result2() (see above) which is now used by LDAPObject.result().

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ll-toxic 0.1
by Walter Dörwald 18 May '04

18 May '04

ll-toxic 0.1 has been released! What is it? =========== ll-toxic is an XIST namespace that can be used for generating Oracle database functions that return XML strings. This is done by embedding processing instructions containing PL/SQL code into XML files and transforming those files with XIST. Where can I get it? =================== ll-toxic can be downloaded from http://ftp.livinglogic.de/toxic/ or ftp://ftp.livinglogic.de/pub/livinglogic/toxic/ Web pages are at http://www.livinglogic.de/Python/toxic/ ViewCVS access is available at http://www.livinglogic.de/viewcvs/ Bye, Walter Dörwald

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SC-Track Roundup 0.6.10 - an issue tracking system
by Richard Jones 17 May '04

17 May '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm pleased to announce Roundup 0.6.10, a maintenance release which fixes a single bug in the MySQL backend: - - mysql backend wasn't locking tracker If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow the "Software Upgrade" guidelines given in the maintenance documentation. Note that the Zope interface still doesn't work - it is fixed in the 0.7 release. Roundup requires python 2.1.3 or later for correct operation. Python 2.3.1 or later is strongly recommended. To give Roundup a try, just download (see below), unpack and run:: python demo.py Source and documentation is available at the website: http://roundup.sourceforge.net/ Release Info (via download page): http://sourceforge.net/projects/roundup Mailing lists - the place to ask questions: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=31577 About Roundup ============= Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition. Note: Ping is not responsible for this project. The contact for this project is richard(a)users.sourceforge.net. Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as "description", "priority", and so on) and provides the ability to: (a) submit new issues, (b) find and edit existing issues, and (c) discuss issues with other participants. The system will facilitate communication among the participants by managing discussions and notifying interested parties when issues are edited. One of the major design goals for Roundup that it be simple to get going. Roundup is therefore usable "out of the box" with any python 2.1+ installation. It doesn't even need to be "installed" to be operational, though a disutils-based install script is provided. It comes with two issue tracker templates (a classic bug/feature tracker and a minimal skeleton) and six database back-ends (anydbm, bsddb, bsddb3, sqlite, metakit and mysql). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAqA5BrGisBEHG6TARAl9EAJ90YTUAuJb8nf4Rl2AWLbLIPArCRgCfajC1 tOWombDsg7ExMPuF0S3vkCs= =DAGP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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SC-Track Roundup 0.7.2 - an issue tracking system
by Richard Jones 17 May '04

17 May '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This maintenance release fixes some bugs in the 0.7 release of Roundup: - - anydbm sorting with None values (sf bug 952853) - - roundup-server -g option not recognised (sf bug 952310) - - HTML templating isset() inverted (sf bug 951779) - - otks manager missing (sf bug 952931) - - mention DEFAULT_TIMEZONE requirement in upgrading doc (sf bug 952932) - - fix DateHTMLProperty so local() can override user timezone (sf bug 953678) - - fix anydbm sort/group direction handling, and make RDBMS sort/group use Link'ed "order" properties (sf bug 953148) - - fix Interval editing (sf bug 954891) Known issues: - - the metakit import feature currently has a bug and should not be used If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow the "Software Upgrade" guidelines given in the maintenance documentation. Roundup requires python 2.1.3 or later for correct operation. To give Roundup a try, just download (see below), unpack and run:: python demo.py Source and documentation is available at the website: http://roundup.sourceforge.net/ Release Info (via download page): http://sourceforge.net/projects/roundup Mailing lists - the place to ask questions: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=31577 About Roundup ============= Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition. Note: Ping is not responsible for this project. The contact for this project is richard(a)users.sourceforge.net. Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as "description", "priority", and so on) and provides the ability to: (a) submit new issues, (b) find and edit existing issues, and (c) discuss issues with other participants. The system will facilitate communication among the participants by managing discussions and notifying interested parties when issues are edited. One of the major design goals for Roundup that it be simple to get going. Roundup is therefore usable "out of the box" with any python 2.1+ installation. It doesn't even need to be "installed" to be operational, though a disutils-based install script is provided. It comes with two issue tracker templates (a classic bug/feature tracker and a minimal skeleton) and seven database back-ends (anydbm, bsddb, bsddb3, sqlite, metakit, mysql and postgresql). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAqAYbrGisBEHG6TARAm6GAJ9hBoNxcjDWeOyepxZ1WyZzHgpE2ACfRhZO 7CwPNuCETxJxiEhpzZ0o2rI= =LgZ5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RELEASED Mailman 2.1.5
by Barry Warsaw 15 May '04

15 May '04

Today I am releasing Mailman 2.1.5, a bug fix release that also contains new support for the Turkish language, and a few minor new features. Mailman is free software for managing email mailing lists and e-newsletters. Mailman is used for all the python.org mailing lists. Mailman 2.1.5 is a significant upgrade which should improve disk i/o performance, administrative overhead for discarding held spams, and the behavior of bouncing member disables. This version also contains a fix for an exploit that could allow 3rd parties to retrieve member passwords. It is thus highly recommended that all existing sites upgrade to the latest version. For more information, please see: http://www.list.org http://mailman.sf.net http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman Finally, a personal note. I have left Zope Corporation to join Secure Software, a company started by John Viega -- Mailman's original author. Although I won't be working on Mailman in any official capacity, it is exciting to be working with him and the rest of the folks there. I leave Zope Corp on a positive note and wish nothing but success for them too. You can find Secure Software on the web at http://www.securesoftware.com. Please continue to use my barry(a)python.org email address for all Mailman correspondences. I don't expect much to change for the Mailman project at all. Enjoy, -Barry 2.1.5 (15-May-2004) - The admindb page has a checkbox that allows you to discard all held messages that are marked Defer. On heavy lists with lots of spam holds, this makes clearing them much faster. - The qrunner system has changed to use only one file per message. However the configuration variable METADATA_FORMAT has been removed, and support for SAVE_MSGS_AS_PICKLES has been changed. The latter no longer writes messages as plain text. Instead, they are stored as pickles of plain strings, using the text pickle format. This still makes them non-binary files readable and editable by humans. bin/dumpdb also works differently. It will print out the entire pickle file (with more verbosity) and if used with 'python -i', it binds msg to a list of all objects found in the pickle file. Removed from Defaults.py: PENDINGDB_LOCK_TIMEOUT, PENDINGDB_LOCK_ATTEMPTS, METAFMT_MARSHAL, METAFMT_BSDDB_NATIVE, METAFMT_ASCII, METADATA_FORMAT - The bounce processor has been redesigned so that now when an address's bounce score reaches the threshold, that address will be sent a probe message. Only if the probe bounces will the address be disabled. The score is reset to zero when the probe is sent. Also, bounce events are now kept in an event file instead of in memory. This should help contain the bloat of the BounceRunner. New supporting variables in Defaults.py: VERP_PROBE_FORMAT, VERP_PROBE_REGEXP REGISTER_BOUNCES_EVERY is promoted to a Defaults.py variable. - The pending database has been changed from a global pickle file, to a unique pickle file per mailing list. - The 'request' database file has changed from a marshal, to the more secure pickle format. - Disallow multiple password retrievals. - The email package is updated to version 2.5.5. - New language: Turkish. - Bugs and patches: 869644, 869647 (NotAMemberError for old cookie data), 878087 (bug in Slovenian catalog), 899263 (ignore duplicate pending ids), 810675 (discard all defers button)

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