[Zope3-dev] Heads up: major change in zc.buildout policy for selecting distributions

2007-08-20 Thread Jim Fulton


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

Jim

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Re: [Zope3-dev] Heads up: major change in zc.buildout policy for selecting distributions

2007-08-20 Thread Benji York

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.   


Yay!
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Senior Software Engineer
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