I have merged the betafix branch to trunk and made the releases of zc.buildout 
1.5.0, zc.recipe.egg 1.3.0, and z3c.recipe.scripts 1.0.0.

Gary

On Aug 20, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Gary Poster wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
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