On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Alex Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/14/12 4:58 PM, Reinout van Rees wrote: >> >> On 13-08-12 23:31, Alex Clark wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> Please weigh in now if you have any serious concerns re: a Buildout 1.6 >>> release, as described here: >> >> >> The only thing: make sure the 1.4.4 buildout + special bootstrap file >> keeps working. The one that prevents 1.5.x from being used. >> >> I suspect a 1.6 buildout won't break it, but I thought I'd mention it >> just to make sure :-) > > > > > I have no idea what that means :-) (I use 1.5.2) Can you explain? There is a > corresponding bootstrap.py file with each release, IIUC. If the "special > bootstrap file" is the bootstrap.py that was released with 1.4.4, then I > understand. Otherwise, I probably don't. It certainly seems reasonable that > a 1.4.x release was made containing "prophylactics" for 1.5.x… and without > looking I'm guessing those prophylactics entail primarily specifying the > correct URL to download the 1.4.4 distribution?
And some other things. I good way to test this would be to put 1.6 in your download cache (before uploading it), bootstrap 1.4 and make sure it doesn't upgrade itself to 1.5. Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton Jerky is better than bacon! http://zo.pe/Kqm _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
