Zope 2 2.1.0b1
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Building and installing Zope from source
-------
This document describes building and installing Zope on Unix.
We will provide Windows instructions in later releases. We
will also provide binary releases for some platforms.
Important notes
ZOPE 2.0 REQUIRES PYTHON 1.5.2!
See CHANGES.txt for important notes on Zope 2.0.
Quick Start
If you are impatient, the following commands should get you up and
running with Zope 2 using ZServer and ZODB 3 on Unix::
python w_pcgi.py # Note, this must be Python 1.5.2
./start
The first command builds and adjusts Zope. Take note of the user
name and password output at the end of this command. You will need
these to manage Zope.
If you get errors indicating that addresses are in use, then you
will have to supply arguments to z2.py to change the ports used for
HTTP or FTP. The default HTTP and FTP ports used by ZServer are 8080
and 8021 respectively. (See the help for the z2.py script by running
z2.py with the -h option for more information on how to specify
different ports)
You can then connect to Zope 2 by directing your browser to::
where yourhost is the name or address of the machine running Zope 2.
If you changed the HTTP port with the -w option to z2.py, then use
it rather than 8080.
You will be prompted for a user name and password. Use the user name
and password output above.
Now you're off and running! You should be looking at the Zope management
screen which is divided into two frames. On the left you can navigate
between Zope object and on the right you can edit them by selecting
different management functions with the tabs at the top of the frame.
If you haven't used Zope before, you should head to the Zope web site
and read some documentation. The Zope Manager's Guide is a good place
to start. You can access the Zope site at:
Have fun!
Building Zope
There are some python scripts in the top-level directory that should
help you get started. You must run these scripts from the top-level
directory.
If you want to try out Zope in the simplest fashion using ZServer,
then run the script wo_pcgi::
python wo_pcgi.py
If you want to use PCGI and an existing web server run w_pcgi::
python w_pcgi.py
Notes
* You should be using Python 1.5.2 to run the build scripts.
* The python you run Zope with *must* have threads compiled in,
which is *not* the case for a vanilla build. When you build the
python you'll use, 'configure --with-threads' does the right thing.
* To build python extensions you need to have Python configuration
information available. If your Python comes from an RPM you may need
the python-devel package installed too. If you built Python from source
all the configuration information should already be there.
* If you just want to use Zope components it's not necessary to build Zope
but it's a good idea since it will compile Python C extensions for you.
* You can use PCGI and an existing web server if you use ZServer.
Starting Zope with an existing web server
See the WEBSERVERS.txt file for more information about configuring Zope
with an existing web server.
Running Zope
There are two ways to run Zope:
- You can use ZServer, the integration of Zope and Medusa. You must
use ZServer if you want to use multiple concurrent threads.
ZServer is a server application that supports multiple protocols:
o HTTP -- ZServer is a Web server
o FTP -- ZServer is a file-transfer protocol server. This
allows you to use FTP-enabled publishing systems with Zope.
o PCGI -- PCGI is a lightweight protocol for forwarding
requests from other web servers, like Apache or Netscape, to
Zope. This makes it possible to use web server features like
connection encryption or logging with Zope.
o monitor -- ZServer has the capability to allow you to access
the Python interpreter directly over a network channel. If
you intend to use this, please read the 'DEBUGGING.txt'
document for more information.
With ZServer, you must start Zope manually using the z2.py script.
Typically, the command used to run the z2.py script will be put in
system startup scripts.
ZServer is the prefered way to run Zope.
- If you *only* want to use PCGI and you don't need multi-threaded
operation, you can have a special program, the pcgi_publisger,
start Zope for you. See the WEBSERVER.txt file for details on
using Zope with an existing webserver.
If you wish to enable Zope logging you must specify options on the
command line. See LOGGING.txt in the doc directory.
Changelog
Zope Changes
This file gives information on changes made to Zope over time,
things that need to be done before the next release and future
plans.
Notes on Zope 2.0
ZOPE 2.0 REQUIRES PYTHON 1.5.2!
Zope 2 includes:
- ZODB 3, the next generation of the Zope Object Database,
- Z Classes, a new mechanism for building Zope applications
- WebDAV level 1 support,
- Support for XML-RPC clients.
- ZServer, the integration of Zope and Medusa,
- ZCatalog, a mechanism for indexing content and creating
catalogs
- Beginnings of XML support
o The Python pyexpat extension, which provides access to the
widely used expat XML parsing library, is included in the
o DOM interface on Zope objects (initially this is limited to
read-only access).
o Import/export using XML
Of course, XML is used in XML-RPC and WebDAV
- Many other sundry big significant items, such as:
o Look and feel improvements,
o Tighter security,
o Simpler creation of Python products.
ZODB 3
See ZODB.txt for notes on ZODB 3.
ZClasses
ZClasses provide a powerful new way to develop Zope
applications. ZClasses allow new objects to be developed
entirely through the web.
ZClasses also support building applications through combinations
of Python classes created on the file system and objects created
through the web. For example, Python classes could implemented
business/
to provide a web interface.
Releases
Zope 2.1.0 beta 1
Features Added
- The ZCatalog now supports relevance ranking. Instead of
search results being returned in an essentially random
order, results are now sorted by 'score'. For text indexes,
the score is the number of occurrences of the search term in
a document. The score can be accessed by an attribute on
Catalog results 'data_record_
- Added Keyword Indexes to the Catalog. Keyword indexes allow
you to index a sequence of 'keywords' as an atomic property
of an object. This is useful for buiding catagorical
- Z SQL Methods arguments list is now a TEXTAREA widget to
ease editing long aruments lists.
- SQL Database Adapters now have a 'test' tab where arbitrary
SQL may be entered and executed immediately through the
- SQL Methods now support an option 'op' parameter on the DTML
method <dtml-sqltest> which allows you to choose the
operator used for comparison.
- WebDAV support has been modified to support MS Office 2000
locking but do _not_ provide actual locking support at the
present time.
- Files and Images now can be served without loading themselves
into memory. This is automatically done for large Files and
Images. As a by product, RESPONSE.write now works better in
ZServer.
- Most if not all of the default DTML generated by Zope and its
built-in products is now generated in the new <dtml-var ...>
syntax. The DTML sources for Zope's built-in management
- DTML entity references can now include dot-separated
var tag *options*, as in: '&dtml.
- There is a new 'url' option on the DTML var tag that causes
allows entity references like: '&dtml.url-foo;'
- There is a new 'url_quote_plus' option on the DTML var tag that
acts like the standard url_quote option but uses '+' to encode
blank spaces.
- There is a new 'missing' option in the DTML var tag that
allows you to provide a value to be used if the variable is
missing, rather than raising a KeyError. This will work in
the entity reference syntax as well. If it is used without
an argument, it will provide an empty string.
- The DTML built-in function, getattr, now accepts an additional
argument providing a default value.
- The tag() method of Image objects now support optional 'scale',
'xscale' and 'yscale' arguments that will automatically scale
the output height and width tag attributes.
- The Products folder in the Control Panel now has an 'Import/Export'
tab to allow easier importing and exporting of Control Panel
Products.
Features Changed
- ZCatalog uses subtransactions to keep memory consuption low
at the expense of indexing speed. Subtransactions can now
be disabled through the management interface for use with
non subtransactions compatible objects like ZSQL Methods (or
for raw speed if you have lots of RAM).
- Added a coptimizations module. The first optimization is
to provide an implementation of persistent_id in C. This
routine, which is called extremely often while pickling was
found to be a significant bottleneck.
- More flexible cache management methods were added to ZODB
out of memory can force aggressive cache behavior.
- Added the beginnings of internationaliz
The Zope startup script (z2.py) now supports a "-L" option
that can be used to pass a locale name (such as "en" or "de")
to Zope at startup. If specified, Zope will attempt to set the
locale using the locale module if it is available. This change
will allow Zope to better handle international characters in
a number of places such as searching and indexing.
- Logging from ZServer modified to produce Common Log Format
in a Combined format, where user-agent and referer are also
logged.
- xmlrpclib was updated to relect the current version (0.9.8)
from Pythonware.
Bugs Fixed
- The build procedure for source checkouts now sets the
directory structure permissions to something (775) readable
by anyone, including, e.g., the web server running under a
different user id and group than the installer...
- A bug in the DTML tree tag that prevented expand_all from
working correctly has been fixed.
- ZCatalog now actually saves memory when using
- Added ALT text fixed nested anchor tags produced by the Tree
tag to ensure that valid HTML is produced, and fixed the
reverse option to the Tree tag.
- A bug in FTP cookie authentication was fixed.
- Fixed a bug that caused External Methods to be reloaded every
time they were used in development mode.
- Fixed a permission typo in ZCatalog and a sort_on bug.
- Fix for missing REQUEST in a method signature in the
- Changed to propagate errors raised by _begin for thunked
database adapters. Also changed completion code to check
which would be the case if _begin failed.
- A memory leak in cPersistence has been fixed, and a bug in
object deactivation that prevented deactivation of BTrees
was fixed.
- A problem in BTrees that caused unintended db writes on
Catalog searches was fixed.
- Some unnecessary debug mode overhead eliminated - external
methods are now automatically reloaded only when the .py
files are changed.
- A thread-safety problem with PCGI handling was fixed.
- A bug that caused installation of through-the-web product
- A bug in the handling of long int properties was fixed.
- Some bugs in the generation and verification of CRYPT based
passwords was fixed.
- A bug in the earliestTime method of DateTime objects was fixed.
- A bug in determination of the ZServer version string was fixed.
- Height and width detection for some PNG images did not work
properly.
- A bug that caused proxy role machinery to ignore local roles
was fixed.
- Added a fix for PCGI to make sure binary IO is used on win32.
- A javascript fix for IE5 was made for the folder add list.
- A bug in sequence multiplication in DTML was fixed.
- A ZServer bug that prevented running multiple Zope2 installations
on non-posix systems was fixed.
- An External Method error handling bug was fixed.
- The local 'Owner' role could be overwritten when an object
was copied, moved or renamed.
- Documented and fixed the creation of 'selection' and 'multiple
- SECURITY: Fixed bug that allowed users with local roles gain
used the correct context, as defined by the inner-most object
wrapping.
- SECURITY: The permissions for Find support methods were not
being properly initialized.
- SECURITY: Viewing existing user no long displays current password,
only space for putting in the new password. This will be more
critical as we move toward fully encrypted passwords.
- SECURITY: A bug that prevented setting permissions on External
Methods in ZClasses was fixed.
Zope 2.0.1
Bugs Fixed
- Fixed a bug which allowed unauthorized options to be displayed
when adding a Folder. Now you only see options to add an
Zope 2.0
Features Added
- Database conflict errors are now logged. Although conflict
errors are normally handled by retrying requests, frequent
conflict errors can degrade performance and should be dealt
with by redesigning applications.
Features Changed
- The process id displayed in the control panel now inclused
the thread id, in parentheses.
- Upload of image or file data *always* used
support subtransactions. Images and files now use
128K bytes in size. Also, subtransactions are not used if
data are uploaded as a string by using the ':string'
More advanced DA's could, and probably should support
Bugs Fixed
- Attempting to cut an object then paste it into itself or
one of its subobjects would cause a recursion problem.
- Certain ZCatalog reindex operations could fail due to an
- Database connections were leaked when database conflict
errors occurred and handled by reexecuting requests. When 7
requests.
- The transaction-
work properly. Aborting Zope transactions didn't abort
were not committed after a Zope transaction using a
problems with Gadfly databases and transactions.
- Fixed a bug which prevented ZPublisher.Client from uploading
files to ZServer.
- Added some logic to the win32 binary installer to fix some
dll loading problems people were getting on international
versions of NT.
- Fixed a bug in cDocumentTemplate that could cause AttributeError
instances to be leaked in certain situations.
- 'reverse' option for the 'in' tag as well as the 'tree' tag
has been changed to deal with a copy of the data, rather
than the original. The database was being modified in
place. The side effect is that in large list situations
(with ZCatalog for example), sizable memory usage may
result.
- Missing values (as returned from SQL methods) were output as
empty strings by the DTML var tag, even when a numeric
format (e.g. "%5.3f") is used. Using a numeric format with
a missing value should generate an error, unless the null
attribute is used. Also, the null attribute had no effect
when outputing missing values.
- It was impossible to map some permissions to themselves, or
to other inherited, but not registered permissions in
products and in class methods. When this failed, a silly
error message ("Waaa" ;) was output.
- SQL methods had an unused method, getFindContent allowed
anonymous users to read SQL method source. This method was
renamed to PrincipiaSearch
- SQL methods could not be found with the find mechanism by
searching their source.
- The PrincipiaSearch
methods was not protected, so anonymous users could read
their source.
- Fixed a bug in ZOM which caused getElementsByTa
when using XML Document. Thanks to Andrew Kuchling.
- It was possible to hijak 'self' arguments for DTML and
External methods with request variables. This was especially
- It was difficult or impossible to call External methods with
'self' arguments from XML-RPC.
Zope 2.0 beta 6
Features Added
- The control panel process id display now also includes the
thread id.
- The Zope start script, 'start', is now written in a
move Zope sites around after installation.
Features Changed
Zope 2.0 introduces a new HTML DTML syntax that, among other
things, allows simple 'var' tags to be entered using the
<input name=spam value="
The entity reference syntax is mainly intended for use
when a var tag is used to insert text into an HTML tag. In
these cases, the text needs to be html-quoted. For this
reason, use of the entity reference syntax now implies html
quoting. For example, the DTML snippet above is equivalent to::
<input name=spam value="<dtml-var spam html_quote>">
(Note that when inserting text to be used in a URL, as in an A
tag HREF attribute, we need to url-quote the text. Zope 2.1
will provide a means to do this with the entity-reference
syntax.)
Bugs Fixed
- Missing values were not formatted correctly with numeric
formats and did not work properly with the 'null' attribute of
the DTML 'var' tag.
- It wasn't possible to map some permissions of objects in
Products. For example, it wasn't possible to enable a
to a rather silly uninformative error message.
- When providing default values for input fields, few of the
built-in DTML methods used html quoting. This lead to
incorrect behavior when default values included markup or
quotes.
- View filtering failed to show tabs for views in some cases
where it should.
- Single-character variable names were'nt allowed in the
- DTML batch processing didn't work properly.
- The DTML functions, '_.getattr', and '_.hasattr' incorrectly
acquired attributes even when explicit acquisition was used.
- Image dimensions were not autodetected for PNG 1.2 files.
- The "View" view didn't display correctly for images with ids
with characters that had special meaning in URLs.
- The 'optional' attribute in the 'sqltest' tag had no effect.
- With browsers (like lynx) that correctly implement RFC 1867
for file-upload support, non-file fields in file-upload
requests were treated as file fields.
Zope 2.0 beta 5
Features Removed
- The help system, which was primarily geared to DTML
Bugs fixed
- Database packing failed in certain cases where the data set
contained many version commits.
- Database packing generated spurious error logs indicating
that there were bad references for objects created in
- A memory leak due to errors in managing request data.
- Zope sites became unresponsive (a.k.a. "Hung") due to an
error in managing ZODB 3 database connections.
- Only the top-level folder's standard_
- There were thread-safety and resouce consumption problems
in the implementation of thread-safe regex objects.
- Fixed bug where ZCatalog's not in the root folder did not
recognize the proper URL of objects using the 'Find'
disapear when you updated the catalog (because their paths
were wrong). The Catalog now works correctly anywhere in
the object hierarchy.
- Fixed a bug that caused error messages to be formatted
with an HTML tag.
- The undo form was accessible even to people who couldn't do
undo. This made it look like we were allowing undo in cases
where we were'nt supposed to.
- The undo form did not restrict undoable transactions to
just those transactions performed by users that were
less restrictive than the Zope 1 undo. Undo should probably
be *more* restrictive, but that will have to wait for 2.1
or later.
- Zope crashed under load for applications using ZCatalog due
to an ancient bug in handling loading of empty BTrees from
the database. This bug has only become effective with
ZCatalog.
Zope 2.0 beta 4
Features Removed
- Draft objects are no longer supported.
Features added
- The source release install script now checks to make sure that
the Python used has thread support.
- FileStorages can now habe quotas.
Bugs fixed
- This release fixes a socket listen-queue depth problem on
Win32 systems that caused poor performance and connection
refusals in ZServer.
- Fixes to the win32 installation were made to prevent a
potential conflict on systems that have an existing
- Some of the management views, including the
- New SQL methods could bot be created.
- New mailhost objects could not be created.
- New Draft objects could be created.
- Draft objects could not be deleted.
- ZClasses could not be added as methods.
- Disk full errors could leave the object system
in an inconsistent state. The handling of this error
was made more robust. Also, when serious errors like this
occur late in the transaction commit process, the
The File-storage recovery process needs to change to make
disk full errors detectable earlier in the two-phase commit
process so that the system can recover without switching to
read-only mode. This change, which is expected in 2.1 will
also provide better write performance.
- Errors during commit of sub-transactions were not handled
- Packing not not mark all transactions performed before the
pack time as "packed". Undoing these transactions lead to a
broken database.
- On win9x systems, random data seems to be added to the end
of the file on system crashes, causing apparent file
recover by truncating the file with a log message.
- The Zope version was not shown in the control panel.
- The binary release had the PCGI wrapper program in the wrong
directory so PCGI installations were not successful.
Zope 2.0 beta 3
Features added
- Added a 'getobject' method to ZCatalog. This allows you to more
easily get at a cataloged object from 'searchResults'. For
example::
<!--#in searchResults-->
Bugs fixed
- This release fixes a bug in acquisition that caused creation of
ZClass instances to fail under some (common) circumstances.
- Copy and Paste validation machinary now takes local roles into
account.
- ZDOM now adheres more closely to the DOM spec with respect to
Document and DOMImplementation nodes.
- The main management screen will no longer show the 'Delete' or
'Export' buttons if the user doesn't have adequate permissions
to delete or export objects respectively.
Zope 2.0 beta 2
Features added
- Added a '-r' switch to z2.py for ZServer read-only mode.
- The 'null' attribute in the DTML 'var' tag is now used when
the value being output if the Python value 'None'. Some
people considered this to be a bug.
- Permission objects are automatically created for new ZClass
objects as part of the ZClass wizard.
- For Python programmers, there is a new convenience function for
debugging in the Zope package.
For example, to debug method spam in the Zope debugger::
python
import Zope
Bugs fixed
- Changed the logic used to detect binary content types to
only look for control characters. The previous version
binary.
- The ZService.py used to implement Zope as a Win32 service
on NT has been updated to handle a difference in the way
.dll files are found on internationalized versions of NT.
- The configure.in file used to build PCGI has been updated.
- Several fixes to DateTime were added to provide better
behavior on machines with unrecognized time zone names.
- Conflict errors, which occur when simultaneous writes occur
to the same object in multiple database connections, are now
handled correctly by re-executing (up to three times)
the requests that lost the race condition.
- Error formatting with standard_
to the object publisher via a new published module hook,
conflict error handling, this fixed two other bugs:
- Error handling in ExternalMethods and in DTML methods or
caused errors to be propagated in ways that defeated use of
the try tag and other forms of error handling.
- Errors raised before or after calling published objects
were not formatted.
- Errors in processing form variables, such as missing or
formatted error reports.
- Database browsing didn't work for ZGadflyDA database adapters.
- Transaction meta data were not captured correctly by
who performed the transaction.
- Permissions for version operations were not set correctly. This
made it hard to delegate work to be done in versions and to
separate version participation from version finalization.
To fix this, it was necessary to split the "Join/Leave" view
into separate "Join/Leave" and "Save/Discard" views.
- No remark could be entered when discarding versions.
- Fixed a ZServer kill_zombies bug which kept ZServer from killing
hung connections.
- Improved ZServer's handling of slightly broken HTTP requests.
- Fixed a properties setting permission bug.
- Fixed a product permissions registration bug that allowed
product permission data to get lost.
- Updated the MailHost product to use the new product initialization
- Made Z Class icons visible to everyone. This way you can view a
Z Class icon without having and permissions on the Z Class.
- Objects were sometimes incorrectly acquired do a bug in
detecting attribute errors during acquisition. This led to
errors getting covered up or obscured.
- There was a memory leak in acquisition.
- Some thread-safety problems were fixed.
- DTML entity references (e.g. '&dtml-spam;') with missing
- Extra spaces around expressions in DTML caused syntax errors.
- Broken objects, which are used as surrogates for objects
that can no longer be instantiated due to missing product
- A number of fixes were made to the new DOM support.
- Versions could be deleted by users working in the deleted
versions. This led to strange paradoxical effects. Attempts
to delete a version or an object containing a version by
someone working in a version now lead to errors.
- ZGadflyDA has been updated to use the current (as of this
release) version of Gadfly. (Note that this had been
- Using an sql method in a version sometimes caused the method
to be locked, making it unusable by non-version users. This
was due to the way that column meta-data was managed. Now
column meta-data, used by report creation wizards, is only
safed when sql methods are tested.
- In StructuredText, list items could not directly introduce
example code.
- Undoing transactions that discarded versions did not cause
versions to appear non-empty.
- Temporary files were created for file storages that were
opened in read-only mode.
- A bug in FileStorage and DemoStorage didn't show you more
than the first 20 previous transactions in the Undo log.
- An incorrect contents view was returned after adding a File
object.
- On the cache parameters page, the number of bytes, rather
than the number of objects in the database was shown.
Note:
The section for Zope 2.0 alpha 4 did not mention that ZCatalog
is now shipped with the Zope core.
Zope 2.0 beta 1
Backward incompatibility
- ZODB 2 is no longer supported or included!
- The utility script bbb.py, no longer supports
xml output.
Known problems
- Handling of conflict errors hasn't been implemented. When
two threads try to update the same object, one will get a
conflict error. By beta release 2, requests that get conflict
errors will be retried until they succeed (or fail without a
conflict error) or until a maximum number of retries is
exceeded.
Features added
- The default ports used by ZServer have been changed. The
new default ports are: 8080 for HTTP, 8021 for FTP and
8099 for the monitor server.
- ZServer now uses the zLOG logging mechanism for informational and
warning messages.
- ZServer now includes a fairly stable NT service ZService.py
- 'access' file now can use SHA-1 hashing, and now does by
default
- 'zpasswd.py' added to top directory to manage this
new 'access' file
- A number of changes have been made to enhance security
control in through-
- There are new "Permission" objects that can be added to
folder security screens.
- Factory objects can have permission settings. This affects
whether items show up in add lists and who can use factories.
- Objects in products now have permission mapping rather
than direct permission settings just like ZClass methods.
- New permissions cannot be defined in ZClasses any longer.
Rather, ZClasses can select from global permissions,
Here's a sample scenario:
1. Add a ZClass, "Container" with the option to create a
2. Add a permission object with the permission "Manage
3. Change the permission of the factory created in step 1
to "Manage Containers".
4. Visit the ZClass created in step 1, view the "Define
5. Visit the constructor DTML Methods created in step 1,
view the "Define Permissions" view and map the "View"
In this scenario, we created a ZClass and made it addable
only by users (roles) that have the "Manage Containers" permission.
- There is a new module, Shared.DC.THUNK
that implements ZODB 3 transaction protocols and that
provides course-grained locking logic that should allow many
adapter has been updated to use this mix-in class.
- The transaction management mix-in classes (Shared.DC.TM.TM
and Shared.
these in should:
- Call 'self._register()' when performing database
- If necessary, override methods:
- Object export now provides an XML export option and import
files may be in Zope export format or XML format.
- Zope objects that support the Zope management framework now
support the DOM 1.0 read interfaces. This allows DOM read
methods and attributes to be usable with Zope objects and
Python DOM tools, like FourThought's 4XSL to work with Zope
objects.
Note that DOM-defined attributes are defined with "get"
methods. For example, to get the DOM-defined "parentNode"
- The pyexpat extension module for using James Clark's
expat library for parsing XML is included in the
Bugs Fixed
- You can no longer cd to an acquired directory in ZServer FTP.
- A number of changes were made for thread safety. This was not as
hard as it sounds, since persistent objects are always
copy of a persistent object.) The biggest issue here is
mutable global variables, mutable objects stored in classes,
mutable default Python function arguments, and global
variables in extensions.
Zope 2.0 alpha 4
Backward incompatibility
- The old ZopeHTTPServer is no longer supported or included.
Use ZServer.
Features added
- The let and return tags were added to DTML.
- Several new input form types were added:
:record -- allows you to combine multiple form variables
For example::
For more information, see the section on "Form variable
types" in http://
- In the startup script, z2.py:
- The startup script, z2.py, has additional documentation on
providing empty strings as arguments.
- Added a -P option to the startup script, z2.py, to specify a
base port for the various servers. For example::
python z2.py -P8000
is equivalent to:
python z2.py -w8080 -f8021 -m8099
This is a convenient short-hand for systems with many zserver
- Added an -l option to the startup script, z2.py, to specify
the location of the ZServer hit log. If the location is a
relative path, then it is assumed to be rooted in the 'var'
- A progress indicator was added to the database conversion
utility, utilities/bbb.py.
- The PCGI installer now writes the PCGI info file to use ZODB 3
rather than ZODB 2.
- The default content is provided in both ZODB 2 and ZODB 3
format.
- There is a new logging framework for reporting errors from
For the time being, to turn on logging, set the environment
variable STUPID_LOG_FILE to a file name or to an empty
string to log to standard error. We will eventually provide
a more formal and functional logging configuration
- The hooks used by objects that modify their environment were
changed. The new hooks are:
id attribute or persistent id. (It's really for
- Pack is now supported for ZODB3 File Storages.
- The header output by manage_tabs now shows whether the
current object has been modified or locked by a version and
shows the version if the version isn't the current working
version.
- The locked-in-version decoration in the object management
the current working version.
- Several demonstration ZODB Storage implementations have been
- Subtransactions have been added (instead of temporary
or abort call (e.g. 'get_transactio
the commit or abort applies to a subtransaction of the
current transaction. This is useful in a number of ways,
o Subtransaction commits on requests that work with lots
o You can rollback changes due to a local error without
- There is an advanced interface for specifying alternate
storages for Zope. Zope will try to import the module
For example, to use a Demo storage based on the standard
File storage, you might define a 'custom_zodb' module with::
import Globals, ZODB.FileStorage, ZODB.DemoStorage
- Find can now search text of SQL methods.
- DTML tree tags now have a reverse option.
- ZClasses now have class ids. These class ids are registered
in a central registry and are used when unpicking instances.
- Database connections now have a sync method for
useful for interactive connections to see database changes
made by other threads.
- Errors encountered when trying to unpickle object state are
now logged, if logging is enabled.
- Added an extra checkpoint to ZODB 3 FileStorage Transaction
commit to better handle system crashes.
- ZPublisher request objects now have a BODYFILE key to get
the request body as a file for non-form non-GET requests.
- Cookie support was added to the ZServer FTP server to make
FTP access compatible with cookie-based authentication.
- ZServer now includes a NT Service, 'ZServer.py' This service
requires the Python win32 extensions. It is not yet complete
and not yet integrated with the Zope installer. It does however
include a large doc string.
- ZServer is officially using the z2.py start script now. The old
start.py and zinit.py were removed. Note: z2.py will call zdaemon.py
for you, if you want to use ZServer in daemon mode on Unix.
- Added a 'has_permission' method to user objects. This facilitates
finding out if a user has access to a given object. For example::
<!--#if "AUTHENTICATED_
- The product add list is now filtered. This should keep
objects out of the product add list for which the user does
not have adequate permissions. This is implemented with a
new method, 'filtered_
Right now ZClasses do not associate permissions with
Products. Thus all Control Panel Products appear in the
product add list, no matter what roles the user has.
- HTTP REQUEST objects now use HTML in their string representation.
- The REQUEST keys of the form BASEx and URLx, where x is
an integer now allow x to be greater than 9.
- index_html is not longer used automatically for XML-RPC
requests.
- ZPublisher debugger, 'ZPublisher.test' now accepts a 'extra'
keyword argument with a dictionary giving extra variables to
be added to the request. This is handy for testing methods
that require large amounts of input data, such as file uploads.
- The load_site utility ('utilities/
a '-9' switch to make it work with Zope (and Principia)
sites at revisions 1.9 and lower.
Bugs fixed
- Got rid of some DOS line-endings in xmlrpclib.py that caused
- Fixed DOS line-endings in medusa/
- Fixed a NameError (missing TupleType) definition in
the export/import (copy/paste) machinery.
- The startup script failed on Windows because it imported the
posix module without checking the os.
- ZServer crashed when the number of simultaneous connections
exceeded a system limit, especially on Windows. ZServer now
stops accepting new connections when the number of active
- Accessing cached results of items() (or values() or keys())
calls on BTrees caused core dumps if affected elements were
deleted. For example::
Note that this code is still incorrect due to the fact that
the objects returned from abtree.items() (or values() or
keys()) have reference, rather than copy semantics.
- Compiling Acquisition.c caused (bogus) compiler errors on
SGI.
- zdeemun wus mispeled
- Local roles were not handled correctly when filtering
- Copying and pasting ZClass instances copied and pasted their
ZClasses too, effectively disconnecting them from their
managed ZClasses. The same thing happened when ZClass
instances were exported and imported.
- The Database area in the control panel was broken.
- Copy and paste of multiple objects was broken.
- Copy and paste of ZClass methods was broken.
- Copy and paste of ZClass properysheets was enabled and
broken. It is now disabled.
- Accidental import of BoboPOS in processes using ZODB (3)
caused strange errors.
- A bug in batch processing caused batch processing to hang or
give incorrect results.
- DocumentTemplat
- There was a memeory leak in the DTML try tag.
- When adding folders with user databases, no check was made
to make sure the user was permitted to add a user database.
- Broken objects weren't created for objects whose class could
not be found when using ZODB 3.
- The 'self' argument wasn't properly passed to external
methods used in ZClasses.
- The Setup file in the SearchIndex package had an unneeded -I
option that caused compilation errors on some platforms.
- ZGadflyDA transactions were not committed.
- ZClasses didn't provide an interface to edit their titles.
- Propertysheets were broken for ZClasses that inherited from
built-in classes, like Folder and DTMLDocument.
- Propertysheets were disabled for instances by default. Now,
default.
- The navigation pane wasn't updated when classes were added.
- Changes in ZClasses were not properly propagated to all
database connections using ZODB3.
- Database connections were not closed correctly under heavy
load when the number of application threads exceeded the
number of database connections in the connection pool. This
lead to Zope locking up under load if the application thread
count was increased using the z2.py -t option.
- undo in ZODB 3 didn't properly refresh objects.
- export and import was broken for ZODB 3.
- Fixed ZServer HTTP zombie killing. Now hung connections are
- A bug in handling the case when a file was created on open
without the create flag caused weird errors on windows.
- The REQUEST BASE1 key was not computed correctly when
- It was impossible to return an empty list or dictionary to
an XML-RPC request.
- The database conversion script fails when the first record
in the input file lacked properly-formatted transaction
data. The conversion script also didn't work on some
systems due to an incorrect 'flush' call on the *input*
file.
- Factories that were also ZClass methods didn't get
Zope 2.0 alpha 3
Features added
- XML-RPC support
All Zope objects are now XML-RPC servers.
- ZODB 2 (aka BoboPOS) to ZODB 3 FileStorage database conversion
An option has been added to the bbb.py script in the
utilities directory to convert ZODB 2 database files to ZODB
3 format. The bbb.py script now accepts an '-f' option that
takes an argument specifying an output file name. For
example, to convert the ZODB 2 data file, Data.bbb, in the
var directory, to ZODB 3 FileStorage format::
python utilities/bbb.py -f var/Data.fs var/Data.bbb
Note that version data are not converted.
- In Z Classes, Methods and Property Sheets now have a "Define
to be labeled "Security".
- ZServer's FTP server now attempts to display an object's owner
as defined in local roles.
Bugs fixed
- The cache management screens were broken
- Local roles on DTML Methods and Documents were not persistent.
- ZServer's select trigger has been updated and now shouldn't give
errors when running ZServer as another users.
- The tree tag used persistent object ids in ways that were
not compatible with ZODB 3. This caused strange behavior
like weird content-types and invalid state messages.
- The DTML In tag no longer handled batch processing correctly,
and sometimes got into infinite loops. This was due to a very
old bug that was made effective by Python 1.5.2.
- Objects that could not be loaded because their implementing modules
(or packages) had been removed were not handled properly as
broken objects when ZODB 3 was used.
- The DTML Python string format did not allow expressions for
simple variable insertion. Expression insertion is now
allowed if the var tag name if the var tag name is supplied,
as in::
%(var expr="x+1")s
Note that, because of this change, the var tag name must
also be supplied when a variable named 'var' is inserted, as
in::
%(var var)s
Zope 2.0 alpha 2
Features added
- There is a new optional EXPERIMENTAL HTML DTML syntax. As
an alternative to SSI syntax, you can now use ordinary HTML
syntax, as in:
You can also use an entity-reference syntax for the var tag
as an alternative to the tag syntax. For example::
is equivalent to::
and is especially handy in attributes::
<a href="&dtml-foo;">
Both the new syntax and the SSI syntax are allowed in the
same document. In fact, if you were really twisted, you
could:
IMPORTANT
This feature really is EXPERIMENTAL. It could disappear
to get feedback on how useful this feature is.
- reverse options were added to the in and tree tags.
- The startup script, z2.py, has a -D option to turn on
debugging mode.
- Made environment variable settings work with the http
server. So now you can do things like ./z2.py -w 8888
override the normal SCRIPT_NAME. This is Useful for using ZServer
behind a proxy.
- Added support for the Medusa monitor server.
- There's a first cut at a ZServer NT service. This is Zope on
NT's answer to zdeamon.py
It actually seems to work, though there's still a fair
amount missing.
- The error messages for missing or miss-formatted access
files was improved.
- A new debugging method, manage_debug, has been added to
memory leaks.
- The name, 'this', has been added to the namespace available
to construction methods to provide a function for computing
the destination object. The name, 'this' is essentially
- The title of the main Zope management interface now includes
a full URL.
- Folders that have (or acquire) index_html methods now have
view tabs for viewing index_html.
- On browsers that support Java Script, the "Add" button is
omitted and the add form is visited as soon as a selection
is made from the select list.
- The python-pickle format used to export data from ZODB 2 was
updated to handle string data differently.
Bugs fixed
- A number of bugs and features were left out of the
release notes for Zope 2.0 alpha 1. The notes for
Zope 2.0 alpha 1 have been updated substantially.
- There was a serious memory leak introduced when a security
bug was fixed in 1.10.0.
- There was a memory leak in ZODB 3 persistent objects, which
now manage object IDs as persistent objects.
- The Python 1.5.2 cgi module didn't work with Zope.
Zope now includes its own fixed version of the module.
This bug caused FTP, Netscape Publishing and WebDAV to fail.
- A bug in transaction management caused Gadfly requests to
fail. Other database adapters need to be updated.
- Running ZServer as nobody failed due to the order in which
the log file was opened.
- Added fix contributed by Brian Hooper for HTTP Clients which
don't always spell their HTTP headers correctly.
- A number of classes didn't get there reference-counts
reduced when instances were destroyed. This confused the
new memory allocation monitoring tool.
- New user folders had no effect because they did not get
properly registered in their containing folders.
- Changes made to factory objects were lost when a process was
- Clicking on the 'Help' caused the help information to be
displayed in the current frame, rather than in a new
window.
- Shutting down Zope attempted to save the database index even
when Zope was run in read-only mode.
- A number of fixes were made in the Date-Time support.
- Batch processing in the in tag sometimes failed.
- Sites with custom roles in the top-level application
object did not pick up the new 'Owner' role.
- Content-type detection had problems in DTML documents and
methods.
- Some cookie expiration dates used 2-digit years.
- Error values for errors raised by ExternalMethods were lost.
- Values returned by absolute_url were not URL quoted.
- Extra newlines were prepended to documents when they were
edited.
- Objects ids were not properly quoted in a number of places,
because id quoting was unnecessary until recent relaxation
of the rules for ids.
- ExternalMethods are now automatically reloaded when running
in debug mode.
- Search interfaces generated by the search interface wizard
no longer include a "Cancel" button.
- Errors were masked by a bug in handling ZODB3 transaction
aborts.
- The ZODB 3 cache manager deactivated objects too quickly,
causing performance to degrade.
- BASEx request variables were not computed correctly when
- The URLx variables couldn't be computed in some cases when
using ZServer.
Zope 2.0 alpha 1
BACKWARD INCOMPATIBILITY
- A change was made to the way ZClasses are constructed.
and created a new instance and added the instance to
the destination.
Now, the __call__ method simply calls the underlying
managed class with the supplied arguments to create and
return an instance. The instance is not added to a
folder.
The index_html method is now an alias for the
There is a new method, fromRequest, that takes an id
and a request and creates a new instance. It does not
at the instance to a destination.
Features Added
- Integration of ZODB 3
- The ZClass construction interface has been cleaned up to
make construction of ZClasses a little easier from Python.
- When adding ZClasses, there is now an option to
- "Management" screens now *only* show tabs a user permitted
to see. Used in combination with carefully selected roles,
this change provides an adaptable management interface.
- Instance homes can now have local Products directories.
- There is a new ZServer start up script that can be used without
script replaces the ZServer 'start.py' and 'zinit.py' scripts.
- When the new startup script is used, then the control panel
shows a "Restart" button which causes the Zope process to
exit and be restarted and a "Shutdown" button that causes Zope
to exit and not be restarted.
- There is a *very* rough cut at a centralized version manager
in the control panel. This is only functional when the
ZODB3 database is used. This feature will mature
- A new Zope icon was added, and the "powered by Zope" icon
has been updated.
- Made DTMLDocuments, DTMLMethods, Images, Files and Folders
- ZClass property sheets can now have read and modify
- An "add list" name can be specified when creating a ZClass.
If specified, then construction methods and a factory are
created. This makes the class immediately instantiatable and
provides construction method examples.
- The ZClass basic property sheet now shows base classes.
- Changed the string representation of HTTPRequest so that
<!--#var REQUEST--> is a lot friendlier.
- Added a Zope debugging short cut.
Now::
import ZPublisher
is a shortcut for::
import ZPublisher
Bugs Fixed
- ZClass permission setting interfaces didn't show inherited
- A number of bugs arising from attempts to set
caching headers were fixed.
- Some default permissions were not set correctly.
- The unused non-functioning resource-consuming Scheduler has
been removed.
- Access was given to objects without roles even if access
would be denied to the container.
- Fix submitted by Martijn Pieters:
Any property type int or long, set to 0, showed up in the
when trying to change values of other properties, etc.
- Version names were computed incorrectly.
- Delete and rename were broken for ZClasses.
- It wasn't possible to override inherited attributes with
methods in ZClasses.
- Property values were not removed from ZClasses when property
sheets were deleted. This made it impossible to re-add a
property from a deleted property sheet.
- Generated property view and edit forms for ZClass property
sheets had a number of problems.
- The propertysheets property sheet should only allow addition of
property sheets.
Zope 1.11.0 pr1, which should have been named Zope 2.0.0 alpha 0.
Lots has changed in this release. The major news is ZClasses and WebDAV.
Features Added
- Added WebDAV support. See http://
- Added Z Classes. Documentation is forthcoming.
ZClasses might be viewed as somewhat experimental, although
we're using them aggressively for internal projects.
- Added Property Sheets. Documentation is forthcoming.
- ZServer now included in distribution.
- Added new product registration interface. Documentation is
- Added local roles which allow for permission settings for
users on individual objects. This allows for 'ownership' of Zope
objects. Added 'Owner' role to default roles, and automatic
setting of the 'Owner' role on a created object to the user who
created it.
- Added hooks for XML-RPC support to ZPublisher. See the source
for details. XML-RPC support is not yet finished.
- Added automatic height/width detection for JPEG images.
- Revised Zope error messages.
- A new DTML 'try' tag added based on work by Jordan B. Baker.
See the source for details. Documentation is forthcoming.
- A new DTML 'mime' tag has been added. See the MIMETools README.txt
for more information.
- A new 'range' function added the the '_' DTML variable.
- A new 'utilities' directory is included in the distribution.
- A new flag attribute, 'only', of the DTML 'with' tag
prunes the DTML namespace to only the namespace created
with the with tag.
- Added contributed support for encoding options in the SendMail
tag and MailHost send method.
- Management tabs are now prettier and allow status messages with
the manage_tabs_message variable.
- Added a method of notifying users of changes without using a
easier.
- Added more documentation to Product add screens.
- New icons for many Zope objects.
- Sessions are now known as Versions.
- Changed from using 'manage_main' as default management method to use
default management interface which is the first interface defined
in manage_options
- Permission settings are now inherited by Products from their base
classes. This means when you build a Product you only need to specify
its particular permission settings.
- Changed ZPublisher.
providing a stdin, stdout, and stderr, you can provide a Request and
a Response object. ZServer makes extensive use of this feature.
- Added methods to HTTPRequest to allow access to ZPublishers object
source for more details.
- Added a new "builtin" function reorder to DTML.
Reorder the items in s according to the order given in with
and with items mentioned in without removed. Items from s
not mentioned in with are removed.
s, with, and without are all either sequences if strings
or sequences of key-value tuples, with ordering done on the
keys.
This function is useful for constructing ordered select lists.
Bugs Fixed
- Added small fixes to ZopeHTTPServer in anticipation of DAV.
- Construction, upload, and edit methods did not consistently
support either string or file data. This caused really weird
behavior when file upload was used with out including the
':string' suffix in the argument name when doing a file upload.
This bug was previously (and incorrectly) reported as a
- Errors in ExternalMethods were masked by bugs in error
reporting logic. The bugs were made far more effective
by Python 1.5.1.
- Databases (or export files) created in binary distributions
were not usable in source distributions due to cPickle
cPickle extension to BoboPOS to make sure that it uses the
latest version.
- Fixed registration of MailHost settings and incorrect default
- Added contributed patch that fixes bug in copied-object id
- DTML Documents and Methods now attempt to determine their
- Fixed PUT bug in determining content-type of binary files.
- Added changes that allow the top level userfolder to be replaced by a
UserDB or other userfolder-like object.
- Fixed an FTP support bug that sometimes kept simple items from
producing FTP listings.
- Added URL1 instead of "." as the form target for the workspace forms --
using "." causes NS servers to intercept the request and report an
error, making Zope effectively unusable.
- Added ZPL 1.0 and credits to copyright link in management screen.
- Fixed a bug that prevented validate() from working if the top-level
object were accessed and no default object (index_html) existed.
- Fixed a logic bug in security validation that allowed access to
Zope 1.10.2
Bugs Fixed
- Fixed a permission problem with DTMLMethod objects that caused
errors when attempting to commit permission changes.
- Factories could not determine the available methods
when they were being edited, making them uneditable.
Zope 1.10.1
This is a Python 1.5.2 beta 2 compatibility release.
A Python C API change in Python 1.5.2 beta 2 broke
Zope. This release contains a fix.
Zope should work correctly with Python 1.5, 1.5.1 and
beta versions of 1.5.2.
Zope 1.10.0
New Features
- Added Import/Export interfaces to Folders.
Bugs Fixed
- Fixed a bug in ZopeHTTPServer which caused it to fail on POST
requests without content-type headers.
- PUT and file uploads would fail if the content-type could
not be determined. Now objects created via PUT and file
upload will default to either 'application/
for binary files or 'text/plain' for non-binary files if
no content-type can be determined from headers or filename
- Fixed a permission bug left from a change to the Find support.
- Fixed misc typos in docstrings and docs.
- Fixed a bug that kept objects from being freed from the cache!
- MailHost objects didn't do appropriate CRLF conversion or
recognize 4xx server responses.
Zope 1.10.0 pr1
New Features
- Documents generated by the search interface wizard
no longer use tab characters.
- Added a -s option to ZopeHTTPServer. This is useful
for emulating older sites when generating screen shots
for creating or updating documentation.
- Default bobobase now includes a Zope button along with a link
to the Zope site. This satisfies the ZPL attribution requirement.
The button is created by a new builtin method
- Made the logic for getting SOFTWARE_HOME a bit more robust, so that
it handles relative paths and paths starting with '.' and '..'.
This is useful when simply importing Main from the Python
prompt in the lib/python directory.
- The ThreadLock module has been changed to reflect changes
in the Python API in Python 1.5.2.
- The '_' variable in DTML now has the random module
as an attribute and DateTime.DateTime as the attribute DateTime.
- Added keys() and items() methods to the REQUEST object.
- Added get_header() method to the REQUEST object for retrieving
HTTP headers.
- New SearchIndex package and BTree component have been added to
the distribution, providing low-level support for products with
built-in searching such as Tabula and Confera.
- Documents have now been split into two distinct object types:
DTML Documents and DTML Methods. DTML Methods behave exactly
as Document objects did. DTML Documents are similar except that
the "client" or "self" of a DTML Document is the DTML Document
itself rather than its parent, and DTML Documents can have
- DTML Documents, Image and File objects can now have properties.
- A new PropertyManager mixin class allows developers to easily
add properties and property management to non-Folder objects.
- Added a new absolute_url method which can generate an absolute
url for the object on which the method is called.
- GIF and PNG Images now figure out their own dimensions when
uploaded. Image height and width properties are now editable.
- Images now generate themselves as html IMG tags, using an absolute
url and correct height and width tags if possible.
- There is a new form input type, boolean, for inputing boolean
data.
- Added a read_only option to the SimpleDB.
mode.
- Added an environment variable, ZOPE_READ_ONLY, used by the
Zope framework. If this variable is set, then the database
is opened in read only mode. If this variable is set to a
string parsable by DateTime.DateTime, then the database is
opened read-only as of the time given. Note that changes
made by another process after the database has been opened
are not visible.
- Added a database_quota option to the SimpleDB.
quota. The quota is given as either an integer number of
bytes, or a function taking an integer number of bytes
argument and returning whether the quota has been exceeded.
- Added an environment variable, ZOPE_DATABASE_
Zope framework. If this variable is set, it should be set to
an integer number of bytes. Additions to the database are
not allowed if the database size exceeds the quota.
- Added size and last modification time to DTML Method and DTML
Document edit interface.
- Added a new module, BoboPOS.winlock, that provides file
locking on windows. This should prevent many cases of data
- Added FTP support to Documents, Files, Images, and Folders.
FTP interface is detailed in OFS/FTPInterface.py though it may
change. Basic FTP support was also added to SimpleItem to make
it easier for Zope objects to support FTP.
Bugs Fixed
- Permissions for manage_clone method were wrong, meaning that
- File paths that showed up in tracebacks reflected the paths the
files had when they were compiled (at distribution build-time).
The compiled-in paths have been changed to be relative to the
Zope installation directory.
- Fixed a bug in ZPublisher's special handling the "cancel"
submit buttons. The test for the cancel button was case
well as extra spaces.
Cancel buttons should probably be handled using the new
:method form type, but this would require the presense of an
a :redirect form type.
- Date strings with years < 31 were not accepted, even
through the documentation says they should be.
- If Zope crashed or was unable to completely write a database
record, then on restart, a data corruption error was reported.
Now, truncated records are removed if necessary on start up.
If necessary, other records are removed as well to avoid
- Lack of sys.argv in the win32 service version of Zope caused
it to raise errors under certain conditions.
- Several HTTP PUT related bugs were fixed.
- Simple items did not have an objectValues method, which caused
odd behavior in certain tree tags since the method would be
acquired from the parent of the simple item.
- The Find form in the management interface depended on javascript
to function properly.
- Added a fix to compensate for the fact that Apache servers may
rename the entire cgi environment when mod_rewrite rules are
used in .htaccess files.
- If system clocks were changed, so that database records
had records in the "future", then database corruption could
either occur or be incorrectly reported. Now this situation
results in an informative error message and corruption does
not occur.
Zope 1.9.0
New Features
- Zope now provides better information about products. If a
Product has a README.txt, then it will be readable through
the product management interface.
If a product encounters an error during startup, the
traceback is available through the product management
- Cache statistics are displayed in minutes, rather than
seconds.
- Products can define the attribute '__module_
their '__init__' modules that specifies aliases for modules
used in the product. This is useful if module names have
changed and the database contains pickles refering to the
old modules. The attribute should be a sequence of
tuples. Each tuple has a (dotted) module name and a module.
Bugs Fixed
- Development on ZopeHTTPServer has been frozen in anticipation
of the switch to Medusa. Therefor ZopeHTTPServer still does
support PUT. Sorry.
- ZPublisher.Client used the obsolete rand module.
- Errors occuring during product import caused Zope to fail to come
up.
- Product version information was not displayed correctly.
- ZGadflyDA cached table meta-data which lead to missleading
Zope 1.9 beta 3
New Features
- Z SQL Methods (FKA Aqueduct) and the Z Gadfly Database Adapter
are now included.
- The argument handling for ZopeHTTPServer has been changed to
be a bit more flexible wrt the order of argumements.
While options must still come first, environment settings
can be given in any order. This makes startup scripts loke
serve.py quite a bit simpler.
- ZopeHTTPServer now sports preliminary support for PUT publishing.
- ZopeHTTPServer now serves from port 9673 by default, not 8080.
Bugs fixed
- The start.bat file used to start ZopeHTTPServer on win32 was
misnamed and didn't correctly pass command-line arguments.
- Win32 machines without an existing Python installation had problems
due to PYTHONPATH bootstrapping.
- The included ZopeHTTPServer was failing to start correctly on
win32 machines that were not connected to the network.
Zope 1.9 beta 2
In addition to various documentation updates, this release includes:
New Features
- Changed serve.py to accept ZopeHTTPServer command-line options.
- Added a -P option to the ZopeHTTPServer to specify a file
to contain the process ID. This allows a script to stop
the process on Unix.
- Added support for the environment variables, Z_REALM and
enable debug mode.
Bugs fixed
- External methods were broken due to differences in
Python 1.4 and Python 1.5 comparison semantics.
- ZopeHTTPServer command-line environment settings
were not available in os.environ.
- Some class references were wrong in examples in the ExtensionClass
- INSTANCE_HOME was not set correctly when the debugger was run
with a relative path to the published module.
- The #! line in the ZopeHTTPServer was hidden by the copyright
statement and didn't have the right path.
- A bug in pcgi_publisher.py caused file uploads larger than 1 MB
to fail.
Zope 1.9 beta 1
Bugs fixed:
- pcgi did not build correctly on Solaris 2.6
- links in headers were broken when Zope was reached with
/, as is the case when the ZopeHTTPServer is used.
- Python sources used tabs and spaces for indentation, which
made some people unhappy.
- Copyright statements were missing or out of date.
- Added better instructions for building and running Zope.
- Added new Zope License and attribution information.
- Merged BoboHTTPServer updates with ZopeHTTPServer. Including
socket changes to allow easier stopping and starting.
- Shutting down the ZopeHTTPServer from the application
caused an empty document to be returned.
- The install scripts failed if run more than once when attempting
to create a var directory.
Features
- Added (and old version of) the zlib module to make
- Zope requires an access file. The install scripts now create
one.
Zope 1.9 alpha 1
This was the inital Zope test release.
Futures
Things we plan to happen real soon (maybe next release)
Features
- include a serve shell script along the lines of:
python serve.py > var/serve.log 2> var/serve.errors &
Note that this script should be written by the installers
and use sys.executable.
(Brian)
Bugs
- Chase down weird bugs reported by Michel Pelletier.
Things to do sometime
Features
- Better deamon management for ZopeHTTPServer, Medusa,
and pcgi-LRP (when pcgi wrapper gets out of process
(Note that there is some experimental code along these
lines in principia main.)
- Need make_clean.py that:
- runs make clobber for the extensions
- runs make clean in pcgi
- prints an message reminding user to manually remove var
(brian)
- The default access file should be handled a little differently.
The installer should make people enter values, the default
should have a randomly generated password, or the default should
be ommitted.
Bugs
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