On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Reinout van Rees <rein...@vanrees.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I've done quite a lot of work on buildout in the last two or three weeks. > Merging pull requests and also submitting a couple of my own.
Thanks! > > If you look at the list of pull requests > (https://github.com/buildout/buildout/pulls) you'll see a bunch that need > further work ("doc or tests needed") and a handful of "plus or minus" pull > requests, dealing with plus-minus stuff regarding sections. I don't use that > much and I haven't looked at those yet. Perhaps someone else wants to? > > I've also set up travis-ci.org caching so that the builds on travis run two > to three times faster. > > And I've fixed several issues dealing with non-ascii filenames. Apparently, > if you install pyramid (for instance), buildout will fail to run. Apparently > it is enough to install something like mr.bob to break buildout totally. It > is now fixed in https://github.com/buildout/buildout/pull/250 > > > There are two things that need doing now that I cannot do: > > > - Review https://github.com/buildout/buildout/pull/248 with a number of > bootstrap fixes. The fixes themselves aren't controversial, I think (adding > a version, for instance). The one thing I want feedback on is that buildout > now deletes the contents of the develop-eggs/ directory when it bootstraps. > This helps a lot with faulty left-over egg-links in corner cases. The old > osc.recipe.sysegg recipe for instance used to reliably wreak my buildouts > (syseggrecipe is the replacement that does the right thing). Zapping the > develop-eggs contents on bootstrap helps solve several problems. In my case, > I really want this change to go in as it might mean the difference between > my company using buildout or not... I'm getting tired of saying "oh, remove > the develop-eggs directory contents". > > - Make a new zc.buildout, zc.recipe.egg and bootstrap.py release. See issue > https://github.com/buildout/buildout/issues/249 . You can make a bootstrap release by merging to the bootstrap_release branch. I can make releases this weekend, or I can empower you. Which would you prefer? Jim -- Jim Fulton http://jimfulton.info _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
