Just found out that the "good old" gq is not maintained anymore. (see : http://biot.com/gq/)

Had to look for another one and found luma (http://luma.sf.net) which is a PyQT interface based application :)

Really nice !

Here's couple of snapshots  there : http://luma.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html

I really would like to see such kind of app integrated with KDE though :)

I discussed with Stephan yesterday on IRC about the Zope3 and Twisted integration and just wanted to drop a blog related to this.

Stephan did a great work with Michael Kerrin integrating Zope3 with Twisted. (A branch is already waiting for Zope-3.2 there. and they've been in touch with the Twisted guys all along this work. This is really promising !

I found this integration interesting for two reasons. The first reason, it's something that lots of Zope hackers are waiting for because Twisted is a really powerful framework that was unfornately hard to use with Zope until now (which was of course preventing Zope devels to dig into Twisted more deeply) and the second reason is that we can hope to see the developers from both projects trying to work together and use both frameworks on both sides.

The thing now is to convince the Twisted folks to use Zope3 :) It seems they are developing their own stuffs such as newo or even their own persistency mechanims (persisted component) and probably tons of other things I'm not aware of...

For someone involved in Zope2 for a while this it typically the kind of Python symptom you'll often find that consists of always reinventing the wheel since it's often easier to recode your own stuffs than integrating someone's else code and communicate with the folks maintaning it. We agreed it's bad and a waste of ressources after Zope2 and all the CMS projects around Zope2...

I really hope both Twisted and Zope hackers will check and use more each other framework, share components and exchange patches. It will be so great merging somehow hackers from both communites !

Twisted folks : check Zope3 !  (It will be using Twisted right -:))

For those who didn't get to read the Zope3-dev mailing list, a bug day is planned for this friday (29th) to fix the remaining bugs on the trunk for the 3.1 release.

See Stephan mail there :
http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope3-dev/2005-July/015014.html

We can expect the first RC of Zope-3.1 after this. Youpie !

Personally, really excited about this because it means the feature freeze on the trunk will go away, with a dedicated 3.1 branch, and then the 3.2 developments will start which will include for instance, for the stuffs  I'm following myself : 

• lxml dependency
• xpdlcore
• Twisted integration ! :) (This wil rock !)
• Jean-Marc's cpsskins  ( the rumor says ;) )
  

and of course much more in the pipe after this :)

Finally, I took some time to publish my slides from the libre software meeting that occured 2 weeks ago in Dijon. These slides are in French and you may download them in pdf or OpenDocument formats.

The topics were Python and XML and Introduction to Zope3

You can grab them there from the AFPY website.

Congrats to Tarek for the organization of the Python track !

Cheers,