I intend to release zc.buildout 1.5.0 Monday, August 23. I will merge the code from from svn+ssh://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zc.buildout/branches/gary-betafix into trunk.
This will change the bootstrap.py script on which some people depend via svn externals. Also, existing bootstrap and buildout invocations that do not specify a particular buildout release will automatically get the new release, as usual. In light of the troubles with the 1.5.0b1 release, particularly for users of virtualenv, I have done four things. 1. I added an automated test for the virtualenv interaction problem encountered in the last release, and fixed it. If you are using virtualenv, it now uses the old behavior for generating scripts. I and others have had success manually testing virtualenv + buildout with with these changes. 2. Today I released zc.buildout 1.4.4 (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.buildout/1.4.4). The 1.4.4 release is a release for people who encounter trouble with the 1.5 line. By switching to the associated bootstrap script (http://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zc.buildout/branches/1.4/bootstrap/bootstrap.py) you can stay on 1.4.4 until you are ready to migrate. 3. I have a new help document describing the changes in the 1.5 line. This will be part of the documentation shown on pypi. You can see it here: http://svn.zope.org/zc.buildout/branches/gary-betafix/SYSTEM_PYTHON_HELP.txt?view=markup 4. For the future, the new (1.5) versions of Buildout and the bootstrap script now prefer final versions of Buildout, recipes, and extensions. This can be changed by using the --accept-buildout-test-releases flag (or -t for short) when calling bootstrap. This will hopefully allow beta releases of these items to be more easily and safely made in the future. The change log is here: http://svn.zope.org/zc.buildout/branches/gary-betafix/CHANGES.txt?view=markup Gary _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
