Merge branch 'release/1.8' into develop

docs/news.txt

@@ -15,8 +15,11 @@ Changes & News
    with the upgraded Python.
 
 
-master (unreleased)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+1.8 (2012-09-01)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* **Dropped support for Python 2.4** The minimum supported Python version is
+  now Python 2.5.
 
 * Fix `--relocatable` on systems that use lib64. Fixes #78. Thanks Branden
   Rolston.
@@ -27,6 +30,21 @@ master (unreleased)
 * Fix ``--relocatable`` when a script uses ``__future__`` imports. Thanks
   Branden Rolston.
 
+* Fix a bug in the config option parser that prevented setting negative
+  options with environemnt variables. Thanks Ralf Schmitt.
+
+* Allow setting ``--no-site-packages`` from the config file.
+
+* Use ``/usr/bin/multiarch-platform`` if available to figure out the include
+  directory. Thanks for the patch, Mika Laitio.
+
+* Fix ``install_name_tool`` replacement to work on Python 3.X.
+
+* Handle paths of users' site-packages on Mac OS X correctly when changing
+  the prefix.
+
+* Updated the embedded version of distribute to 0.6.28 and pip to 1.2.
+
 1.7.2 (2012-06-22)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 

virtualenv.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 # If you change the version here, change it in setup.py
 # and docs/conf.py as well.
-__version__ = "1.7.2"  # following best practices
+__version__ = "1.8"  # following best practices
 virtualenv_version = __version__  # legacy, again
 
 import base64