[Distutils] zc.buildout 2.0.0a4 released

Chris McDonough chrism at plope.com
Tue Nov 20 04:21:38 CET 2012


On 11/19/2012 09:47 PM, Alex Clark wrote:
> On 2012-11-20 02:00:34 +0000, Tres Seaver said:
>> Amen.  Let's not coddle folks who blindly install without checking, to
>> the detriment of those who pay attention and will help find and fix bugs.
>>  Those who need the coddling should be paying somebody for the service.
>
>
>
> I agree on principle something like the zc.buildout 2.0 alpha should go
> to PyPI so folks can start using, testing, giving feedback, etc. But I
> don't agree in practice it is the right thing to do when we know it is
> going to negatively affect a large number of users[1].

Whom is it actually breaking?  People who do "easy_install zc.buildout"?
For people who aren't trying to install it for the first time and whom 
already have it, isn't this what:

[versions]
zc.buildout = 1.5.2

is for?

- C



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