Five, the Zope 3 in Zope 2 project
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What is Five?
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Five is a Zope 2 product that allows you to integrate Zope 3
technologies into Zope 2, today. Five right now allows you to use the
following Zope 3 technologies in Zope 2:

* Zope 3 interfaces

* adapters

* pages (views), including skins and layers, and edit and add forms

* ZCML

It is possible to add Zope 3 style views to your own Zope 2 objects,
or to existing ones, even normal Folders!

Five works with a straight Zope 2.7 installation, as long as Zope 3
has been installed. See Five's INSTALL.txt for more information on how
to set it up. Five 1.0 is also already included in Zope 2.8, newer
Five releases since are available however.

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.

Download 
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2005-10-04 -- We have release Five 1.1! Download it here:

http://codespeak.net/z3/five/release/Five-1.1.tgz

2005-07-13 -- We have released Five 1.1b! Download it here:

http://codespeak.net/z3/five/release/Five-1.1b.tgz

2005-07-12 -- We have released Five 1.0.2! This is also the version
that will be included in Zope 2.8.1. Download it here:

http://codespeak.net/z3/five/release/Five-1.0.2.tgz

2005-05-31 -- We have released Five 1.0.1! This is also the version
that will be included in Zope 2.8.0. Download it here:

http://codespeak.net/z3/five/release/Five-1.0.1.tgz

2005-04-27 -- We have released Five 1.0! Download it here:

http://codespeak.net/z3/five/release/Five-1.0.tgz

And view changes here:

http://codespeak.net/z3/five/CHANGES.html

2005-03-11 -- We have released Five 0.3! Download it here:

http://codespeak.net/z3/five/release/Five-0.3.tgz

2004-09-24 -- Five 0.2b is released. Download it here:

http://codespeak.net/z3/five/release/Five-0.2b.tgz

2004-07-30 -- We have released Five 0.1! Download it here:

http://codespeak.net/z3/five/release/Five-0.1.tgz

Joining the project
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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 http://codespeak.net/svn/z3/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!
