[Distutils] Beta release of zc.buildout 1.5.0

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

On 2010-04-30, at 1:38 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

> There's a big problem in our ecosystem:  PyPI + our various installers
> don't have the concept of "beta" release. Any new release is
> considered to be the latest release.
> 
> Until it's fixed, I think we should avoid pushing any betas to PyPI,
> especially zc.buildout, because many buildout instances
> out there are getting upgraded automatically. Leading to a wave of
> problems when there's an issue in the release.
> 
> I propose that we "hide" the beta version on PyPI until all problems
> are cleared u, so people don't auto-upgrade their buildouts.

Hiding a release in PyPI does not seem to make 'easy_install NAME' *not* fetch it, does it?

-srid