[Plone-developers] New kids on the block

[Sidnei da S. <si...@aw...>]

A bunch of new products have hit CVS during the last weeks, which I
thought would be a good idea to announce.

Marshall: A framework for pluggable marshalling policies
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Features
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- A ControlledMarshaller class that delegates to underlying
  implementations
- A marshall registry tool where you can configure some predicates for
  choosing marshallers based on several pieces of information
  available.

(See also PLIP44: http://plone.org/development/plips/plip44)

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/archetypes/Marshall-0.1.tgz?download

CTRExtras: Add-on predicates for CMF's Content Type Registry
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Features
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- A RFC822-based predicate
- A HTML-Meta predicate (matches against <meta> tags
- A XMLNS predicate (matches against element and attribute names --
  qualified or not -- and values)

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/collective/CTRExtras-1.0.tgz?download

Flon, Five for Plone
====================

::

 From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

   Flon \Flon\, n. pl.
      See {Flo}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

   Flo \Flo\ (fl[=o]), n.; pl. {Flon} (fl[=o]n). [AS. fl[=a],
      fl[=a]n.]
      An arrow. [Obs.] --Chaucer.


Features
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- A replacement for portal_interface that exposes part of the
  IIntrospector interface from Zope3
- A action icon pointing to a form where you can add/remove marker
  interfaces from objects.

http://codespeak.net/svn/z3/Flon/trunk/

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<washort> this was experimentally determined using an unholy combination of emacs, python's interactive mode, and bc