Zope 2.0 beta one should be out *very* soon. This week saw a lot of screw tightening in preparation for the beta release. The public CVS archive is temporarily frozen due to some re-organization but will open up again when the beta release comes out. Most of the traffic on the Zope lists was devoted to Zope community members helping each other solve their various real world problems. One of the most notable discussions this week started with a comparison between Zope and other web development platforms with respect to xml facilities. Folks at DC weighed in with their 2 cents on the subject which includes the imminent release of a Zope product which will allow access to xml objects in Zopish ways. Interestingly many community members have similar ideas of what Zope needs in terms of xml support. It will be exciting to see how Digital Creations and community members collaborate on XML development efforts. * Chris Petrilli announced an new Zope mailing list, zope-announce. If you're overwhelmed with the volume of the currently Zope lists, this one could be for you. http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce/ http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/006993.html * Amos Latteier posted a roadmap details some plans for XML development in Zope. Digital Creations will release an alpha XML Zope product in the next couple days. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/007010.html * One of the best IT magazines on the German market, iX Magazine, has a Zope article available in the August 1999 issue by Frank Tegtmeyer. http://www.heise.de/ix/ http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/1999/08/064/ * Andreas Kostyrka announced Navigate 0-0-4. This product allows you to control which objects are displayed. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/006969.html http://www.zope.org/Download/Contrib/ * Arpad Kiss announced a simple Zope chart drawing tool. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/006964.html http://starship.python.net/crew/arpadk/downloads/Chart0.3.0.tar.gz * Andy Dustman announced a new Python interface for MySQL, MySQLdb-0.0.3. This package includes a patch to use it with Zope's MySQL database adapter. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/006946.html http://starship.python.net/crew/adustman * Hurrah Internet now offers Zope hosting. http://www.hurrah.com/ http://www.zope.org/Community/ZHP * Chris Petrilli posted a note about BLOBs and Zope database adapters on the zope-dev list. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-July/000863.html See you next week. == Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------