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‘I would actually bet on Jim´s “door #3″ (Zope2 reabsorbing Zope3) as a more likely outcome.’ - Tres Seaver*

This is a good prediction of what will be - once it is

Until then some people will go on complaining on the current state of Zope, adding to the Zope2 vs. Zope3 FUD, demanding better docs, better feedback, better manners in mailing list discussion, even a Zope fork (guys, what a waste of time) — but, these people won’t even try to give back, write docs, answer other peoples questions in mailing lists, support the community, …

Looks like it has to get worse - before it gets better again.

Anyway, here are some news from the feeds:

Big news on Philipp von Weitershausen’s Zope3 book: 2nd edition expected next month!

Baiju Muthukadan starts the ‘Eggification of Zope Packages‘: ‘Many zope.* packages are already eggified before this proposal. There are some packages remaining. This proposal is to track eggification of packages under zope namespace which are distributed with Zope 3.’ (Zope 3 wiki)

Martijn Faassen writes about ‘Grok: or what I did on my holiday‘. Grok is a very recent project, aimed at using Zope3 without ZCML. So what does Grok-based Zope 3 code look like? See yourself…

Bad news from George Donnelly: Zettai Will Cease Operations Within 3-6 Months

Releases

• [z3-five] - Five release fest: Five 1.3.8, 1.4.2, 1.5.1 released

Useful Links

• Python Cheese Shop : wc.cookiecredentials 2.0 - This package contains a plug-in for Zope 3’s Pluggable Authentication Utility (PAU) that challenges and extracts user credentials based on browser cookies
• Python Cheese Shop : wc.worldcookeryskin 2.0 - Zope 3 skin for WorldCookery-like applications
• pylonshq.com: Pylons - ZODB middleware
• effbot.org: the E elementtree builder - a simple helper class for ElementTree, which lets you use a more convenient syntax to construct XML fragments
• Richard Jones: Roundup gets a WSGI interface - So now Roundup has a BaseHTTPServer interface (”roundup-server”), a regular CGI interface, a mod_python interface, a Zope interface and now a WSGI interface which, given support code, can do all but the Zope interface and then some
• pyworks.org: pyjamas 0.1 now available for download
• pythonpaste.org: WSGIRemote gives you a simple API for requests and responses that happens to know about potential opportunities for using WSGI to avoid HTTP while still respecting all your WSGI stack’s dispatching and middleware
• book announcement: REST Web Services - If all goes well, REST Web Services will be published by O’Reilly in May 2007. We want this to be the definitive work on the real-world use of REST.

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You might have noticed that I’ve omitted the last posting and combined 4 weeks into one issue. Its getting harder to find news atm, maybe you should start volunteering the newsletter now ? Check here on how to help… - d2m

Long-awaited zope.org redesign

Zope.org moves all zope-dev wikis to a new location/server at wiki.zope.org. Simon Michael of ZWiki fame dedicates quite a few hours to make that possible - thank you very much.

Zope 3 wiki moves there too and gets a great new layout thanks to Kevin Teague, based on the skin Tom Von Lahndorff created for the new Zope Foundation website. ZopeWiki.org is also available now from the new domain as wiki.zope.org/zope2.

Philipp von Weitershausen proposes to feature-freeze the Products.Five package and basically keep making it work (shrink it) for future Zope versions. Read the thread at [z3-five] RFC: The future of Products.Five.

Ian Bicking - working on OpenPlans (based on zope/plone) - looks into zope3 too. In his Zope 3 Critique he joins the latest developer discussion with some nice observations, like on zope3 adaption…

“If it quacks like a duck it’s probably a duck. Lots of uses of adaptation don’t quack; I don’t know what they all are, but they aren’t ducks.”

Worth reading anyway.

Releases

• Zope.org - Zope 3.2.2
• Zope.org - Zope 2.10.0
• Zope.org - Zope 2.9.5
• Python.org - Python 2.4.4
• Trac 0.10 - Integrated scm, wiki, issue tracker and project environment

Useful Links

• Python Cheese Shop: pushpage 0.3 - Tres Seaver: Push-mode ZPT pages
• Google Code: zope3demos - A small collection of demos using the new zope.viewlet package
• ETH: dLCMS - dynamic Learning Content Management System / Silva based dynamic Learning Content Management System
• Python Cheese Shop: roundup 1.2.0 - A simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. Highly customisable
• Google Code Search - Search public source code
• Google Groups: Google Labs - Code Search - a discussion forum for Google Code Search
• Paste 1.0 - This release includes all the major components: Paste (core), Paste Script, Paste Deploy, and Paste WebKit
• Python Cheese Shop: Oort 0.3 - A WSGI-enabled toolkit for creating RDF-driven web apps
• Python Cheese Shop: Easy Jabber XML-RPC 1.0
• do you remember netstrings ?

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