[Zope3-dev] Re: Heads up: major change in zc.buildout policy for
selecting distributions
Martin Aspeli
optilude at gmx.net
Mon Aug 20 14:02:10 EDT 2007
Jim Fulton wrote:
> I'm about to make a new release of zc.buildout that uses a different
> policy for selecting distributions. In particular, by default,
> zc.buildout will now prefer final distributions over non-final ones.
> If there are final and non-final distributions that satisfy a
> requirement, buildout will, by default, select a final distribution
> even if there are non-final distributions that satisfy a requirement.
>
> This release will cause many existing buildouts to use older
> distributions than they do now.
>
> You can change this behavior by providing a prefer-final buildout
> option:
>
> [buildout]
> prefer-final = false
How will this be versioned?
It'd be helpful if it were a different major (or at least minor) version
than the current one, to make it easier for people to stick with a
version that has the policy they normally use.
Other than that, +1 for this policy change.
Martin
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Acquisition is a jealous mistress
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