Five is a Zope 2 product that allows you to integrate Zope 3 technologies into Zope 2, today. Among others, it allows you to use Zope 3 interfaces, ZCML-based configuration, adapters, browser pages (including skins, layers, and resources), automated add and edit forms based on schemas, object events, as well as Zope 3-style i18n message catalogs.
We've tried to keep the Five experience as close to Zope 3 as possible, so this means that what you learn while using Five should also be applicable to Zope 3, and viceversa. We're in the process of evaluating lots more Zope 3 technologies for integration into Zope 2. This is the right moment for interested Zope 2 and Zope 3 developers to jump in. We're looking for cooperation between different Zope 2 projects so that this can be a foundational system for us all.
We have released Five 1.2.6 on 13 August 2006. You may download it here:
http://codespeak.net/z3/five/release/Five-1.2.6.tgz
We have released Five 1.3.8 on 4 November 2006. This is a bugfix release for Five 1.3 and will be included in the next Zope 2.9 bugfix release. You may download it here:
http://codespeak.net/z3/five/release/Five-1.3.8.tgz
We have also released Five 1.4.2. This is a feature release and is compatible with Zope 2.9. You may download it here:
http://codespeak.net/z3/five/release/Five-1.4.2.tgz
We have also released Five 1.5.1. It will be included with the next Zope 2.10 bugfix release. You may download it here:
http://codespeak.net/z3/five/release/Five-1.5.1.tgz
To check which version of Five is compatible with which version of Zope, please refer to the compatibility matrix.
Five is kindly hosted on codespeak.net, and is part of the larger Zope 3 Base project that offers an approachable area for developers of Zope 3 related software.
Five has a mailing list:
http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/z3-five
We're also active on IRC, at #z3-base on freenode.
Five is hosted in a subversion repository on codespeak.net. You can browse this on the web here:
http://codespeak.net/svn/z3/Five/
You can check out Five using the following subversion command:
svn co svn://svn.zope.org/repos/main/Products.Five/trunk Five
There's also a checkins mailing list for the Z3 project, here:
http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/z3-checkins
If you want checkin access, please join the z3-five mailing list or the #z3-base IRC channel, and ask us there.
We hope to hear from you!