Commit 7490116e authored by Reinout van Rees's avatar Reinout van Rees

Added documentation about bootstrap.py locations

See #86 and #222
parent e69f82cf
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The actual Python compilation is only done once and then re-used. So on
subsequent builds, only the development buildout itself needs to be redone.
Releases: zc.buildout, zc.recipe.egg and bootstrap.py
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Buildout consists of two python packages that are released separately:
zc.buildout and zc.recipe.egg. zc.recipe.egg is changed much less often than
zc.buildout.
zc.buildout's setup.py and changelog is in the same directory as this
``DEVELOPERS.txt`` and the code is in ``src/zc/buildout``.
zc.recipe.egg, including setup.py and a separate changelog, is in the
``zc.recipe.egg_`` subdirectory.
A third item is the bootstrap.py file in ``bootstrap/bootstrap.py``. The
canonical location is at https://bootstrap.pypa.io/bootstrap-buildout.py,
(though it is unfortunate that it isn't named just ``bootstrap.py``). This
file is pulled automatically every 15 minutes from the bootstrap-release
branch. When a new buildout release is made, **the releaser** should update
the bootstrap-release branch, too.
The http://downloads.buildout.org/2/bootstrap.py location doesn't need to be
updated manually: it is a redirect now, to
https://bootstrap.pypa.io/bootstrap-buildout.py .
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