Status ****** The buildout system is under active development. Some near term priorities include: - Fixing `bugs <https://launchpad.net/products/zc.buildout/+bugs>`_ - Making buildouts more `repeatable <https://features.launchpad.net/products/zc.buildout/+spec/repeatable>`_ - Adding support for making distributions from buildouts - Better error reporing - Handling of egg extras - More recipes Change History ************** 1.0.0b17 (2006-12-07) ===================== Feature Changes --------------- - Configuration files can now be loaded from URLs. 1.0.0b16 (2006-12-07) ===================== Feature Changes --------------- - A new command-line argument, -U, suppresses reading user defaults. - You can now suppress use of an installed-part database (e.g. .installed.cfg) by sprifying an empty value for the buildout installed option. Bugs Fixed ---------- - When the install command is used with a list of parts, only those parts are supposed to be installed, but the buildout was also building parts that those parts depended on. 1.0.0b15 (2006-12-06) ===================== Bugs Fixed ---------- - Uninstall recipes weren't loaded correctly in cases where no parts in the (new) configuration used the recipe egg. 1.0.0b14 (2006-12-05) ===================== Feature Changes --------------- - Added uninstall recipes for dealing with complex uninstallation scenarios. Bugs Fixed ---------- - Automatic upgrades weren't performed on Windows due to a bug that caused buildout to incorrectly determine that it wasn't running locally in a buildout. - Fixed some spurious test failures on Windows. 1.0.0b13 (2006-12-04) ===================== Feature Changes --------------- - Variable substitutions now reflect option data written by recipes. - A part referenced by a part in a parts list is now added to the parts list before the referencing part. This means that you can omit parts from the parts list if they are referenced by other parts. - Added a develop function to the easy_install module to aid in creating develop eggs with custom build_ext options. - The build and develop functions in the easy_install module now return the path of the egg or egg link created. - Removed the limitation that parts named in the install command can only name configured parts. - Removed support ConfigParser-style variable substitutions (e.g. %(foo)s). Only the string-template style of variable (e.g. ${section:option}) substitutions will be supported. Supporting both violates "there's only one way to do it". - Deprecated the buildout-section extendedBy option. Bugs Fixed ---------- - We treat setuptools as a dependency of any distribution that (declares that it) uses namespace packages, whether it declares setuptools as a dependency or not. This wasn't working for eggs intalled by virtue of being dependencies. 1.0.0b12 (2006-10-24) ===================== Feature Changes --------------- - Added an initialization argument to the zc.buildout.easy_install.scripts function to include initialization code in generated scripts. 1.0.0b11 (2006-10-24) ===================== Bugs Fixed ---------- `67737 <https://launchpad.net/products/zc.buildout/+bug/67737>`_ Verbose and quite output options caused errors when the develop buildout option was used to create develop eggs. `67871 <https://launchpad.net/products/zc.buildout/+bug/67871>`_ Installation failed if the source was a (local) unzipped egg. `67873 <https://launchpad.net/products/zc.buildout/+bug/67873>`_ There was an error in producing an error message when part names passed to the install command weren't included in the configuration. 1.0.0b10 (2006-10-16) ===================== Feature Changes --------------- - Renamed the runsetup command to setup. (The old name still works.) - Added a recipe update method. Now install is only called when a part is installed for the first time, or after an uninstall. Otherwise, update is called. For backward compatibility, recipes that don't define update methiods are still supported. - If a distribution defines namespace packages but fails to declare setuptools as one of its dependencies, we now treat setuptools as an implicit dependency. We generate a warning if the distribution is a develop egg. - You can now create develop eggs for setup scripts that don't use setuptools. Bugs Fixed ---------- - Egg links weren't removed when corresponding entries were removed from develop sections. - Running a non-local buildout command (one not installed in the buildout) ket to a hang if there were new versions of zc.buildout or setuptools were available. Now we issue a warning and don't upgrade. - When installing zip-safe eggs from local directories, the eggs were moved, rather than copied, removing them from the source directory. 1.0.0b9 (2006-10-02) ==================== Bugs Fixed ---------- Non-zip-safe eggs were not unzipped when they were installed. 1.0.0b8 (2006-10-01) ==================== Bugs Fixed ---------- - Installing source distributions failed when using alternate Python versions (depending on the versions of Python used.) - Installing eggs wasn't handled as efficiently as possible due to a bug in egg URL parsing. - Fixed a bug in runsetup that caused setup scripts that introspected __file__ to fail. 1.0.0b7 ======= Added a documented testing framework for use by recipes. Refactored the buildout tests to use it. Added a runsetup command run a setup script. This is handy if, like me, you don't install setuptools in your system Python. 1.0.0b6 ======= Fixed https://launchpad.net/products/zc.buildout/+bug/60582 Use of extension options caused bootstrapping to fail if the eggs directory didn't already exist. We no longer use extensions for bootstrapping. There really isn't any reason to anyway. 1.0.0b5 ======= Refactored to do more work in buildout and less work in easy_install. This makes things go a little faster, makes errors a little easier to handle, and allows extensions (like the sftp extension) to influence more of the process. This was done to fix a problem in using the sftp support. 1.0.0b4 ======= - Added an **experimental** extensions mechanism, mainly to support adding sftp support to buildouts that need it. - Fixed buildout self-updating on Windows. 1.0.0b3 ======= - Added a help option (-h, --help) - Increased the default level of verbosity. - Buildouts now automatically update themselves to new versions of zc.buildout and setuptools. - Added Windows support. - Added a recipe API for generating user errors. - No-longer generate a py_zc.buildout script. - Fixed some bugs in variable substitutions. The characters "-", "." and " ", weren't allowed in section or option names. Substitutions with invalid names were ignored, which caused missleading failures downstream. - Improved error handling. No longer show tracebacks for user errors. - Now require a recipe option (and therefore a section) for every part. - Expanded the easy_install module API to: - Allow extra paths to be provided - Specify explicit entry points - Specify entry-point arguments 1.0.0b2 ======= Added support for specifying some build_ext options when installing eggs from source distributions. 1.0.0b1 ======= - Changed the bootstrapping code to only install setuptools and zc.buildout. The bootstrap code no-longer runs the buildout itself. This was to fix a bug that caused parts to be recreated unnecessarily because the recipe signature in the initial buildout reflected temporary locations for setuptools and zc.buildout. - Now create a minimal setup.py if it doesn't exist and issue a warning that it is being created. - Fixed bug in saving installed configuration data. %'s and extra spaces weren't quoted. 1.0.0a1 ======= Initial public version