0.7.2

The goal of this release was to fix cross-platform compatibility, primarily Windows bugs that had crept in during the addition of new features. As of this release, Windows is a first-class citizen again, now complete with continuous integration.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed the contributing file so it displays nicely in Github, thanks to @pydanny.
• Updates 2.6 requirements to include simplejson, thanks to @saxix.
• Avoid unwanted extra spaces in string literal, thanks to @merwok.
• Fix @unittest.skipIf error on Python 2.6.
• Let sphinx parse :param: properly by inserting newlines #213, thanks to @mineo.
• Fixed Windows test prompt failure by replacing stdin per @cjrh in #195.
• Made rmtree remove readonly files, thanks to @pfmoore.
• Now using tox to run tests on Appveyor, thanks to @pfmoore (#241).
• Fixed tests that assumed the system encoding was utf-8, thanks to @pfmoore (#242, #244).
• Added a tox ini file that uses py.test, thanks to @pfmoore (#245).

Other Changes:

• @audreyfeldroy formally accepted position as BDFL of cookiecutter.
• Elevated @pydanny, @michaeljoseph, and @pfmoore to core committer status.
• Added Core Committer guide, by @audreyfeldroy.
• Generated apidocs from make docs, by @audreyfeldroy.
• Added contributing command to the makedocs function, by @pydanny.
• Refactored contributing documentation, included adding core committer instructions, by @pydanny and @audreyfeldroy.
• Do not convert input prompt to bytes, thanks to @uranusjr (#192).
• Added troubleshooting info about Python 3.3 tests and tox.
• Added documentation about command line arguments, thanks to @saxix.
• Style cleanups.
• Added environment variable to disable network tests for environments without networking, thanks to @vincentbernat.
• Added Appveyor support to aid Windows integrations, thanks to @pydanny (#215).
• CONTRIBUTING.rst is now generated via make contributing, thanks to @pydanny (#220).
• Removed unnecessary endoing argument to json.load, thanks to @pfmoore (#234).
• Now generating shell hooks dynamically for Unix/Windows portability, thanks to @pfmoore (#236).
• Removed non-portable assumptions about directory structure, thanks to @pfmoore (#238).
• Added a note on portability to the hooks documentation, thanks to @pfmoore (#239).
• Replaced unicode_open with direct use of io.open, thanks to @pfmoore (#229).
• Added more Cookiecutters to the list:
  • cookiecutter-kivy by @hackebrot
  • BoilerplatePP by @Paspartout
  • cookiecutter-pypackage-minimal by @borntyping
  • cookiecutter-ansible-role by @iknite
  • cookiecutter-pylibrary by @ionelmc
  • cookiecutter-pylibrary-minimal by @ionelmc