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

[Jim Fulton]

On Aug 20, 2007, at 1:18 PM, 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

I decided, with some prompting from Martin Aspeli, that this would be  
too disruptive.  The latest release of zc.buildout still supports  
newest releases.  To prefer final releases, you have to set the  
prefer-final option to true.  In zc.buildout version 2,  final  
releases will be prefered by default.

Jim

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