[Zope3-dev] Re: Release process closure

[Jim Fulton]

On Oct 4, 2007, at 6:51 AM, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:

> On 4 Oct 2007, at 00:59 , Jim Fulton wrote:
>> On Oct 3, 2007, at 3:44 PM, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>>
>>> Jim Fulton wrote:
>>>> I'd really like to get to closure on the current approved  
>>>> release process. Philipp, would you mind separating the release  
>>>> process into a separate file?  Or do you mind if I do it?
>>>
>>> Done: http://svn.zope.org/*checkout*/Sandbox/philikon/foundation/ 
>>> releasing-software.txt
>>
>> Cool.  I think you can delete 5b.  You already update the date, as  
>> you should, on the trunk or branch.  You want the actual release  
>> date to be part of the change log, so it has to be entered before  
>> making the tag.
>
> Done.
>
>> I think we need to split "d" into:
>>
>>  d) "Create a source release"
>>
>>  e) Test the source release. At a minimum, rerun the package tests  
>> using the source release.
>>       (I really need to add a buildout option to help with this.)
>
> So how would I do this? This feels a bit complicated:
>
>   1. Create a source distribution with::
>
>        $ python setup.py sdist
>
>   2. Extract the tarball::
>
>        $ tar xzf dist/foo.package-X.Y.tgz
>
>   3. Edit buildout.cfg to make the result of the tarball a develop  
> egg *instead* of
>      the stuff in 'src'::
>
>        [buildout]
>        develop = foo.package-X.Y
>
>   4. Rerun the buildout::
>
>        $ bin/buildout
>
>   5. Run the tests::
>
>        $ bin/test

No. :)

Currently, you could:

   - Create the source distro. (Note that I always use sparkling  
clean Pythons, so the command you give
     doesn't work for me as setuptools isn't importable. I always  
use: bin/buildout setup . sdist

   - Add your dist directory to the list of find links

   - Specify the new version in your requirements

   - remove the develop entry

   - run the buildout

   - run the tests

As I said, buildout could automate this in the future.

Jim

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation