- release preparation

[roundup.git] / BUILD.txt

diff --git a/BUILD.txt b/BUILD.txt
index 1449dc0eef0c97d23c2d7ac341e9999547923c85..7b1090a35bcde39ac665757a817115a250e41a86 100644 (file)
--- a/BUILD.txt
+++ b/BUILD.txt
@@ -10,26 +10,32 @@ Building and distributing a release of Roundup is done by running:
 
 1.  Make sure the unit tests run! "./run_tests.py"
 2.  Edit roundup/__init__.py and doc/announcement.txt to reflect the new
-    version and appropriate announcements. Add truncated announcement to
-    setup.py description field.
+    version and appropriate announcements.
 3.  Note the SVN revision in the CHANGES.txt file.
 4.  Clean out all *.orig, *.rej, .#* files from the source.
 5.  python setup.py clean --all
 6.  Edit setup.py to ensure that all information therein (version, contact
     information etc) is correct.
-7.  python setup.py sdist --manifest-only
-8.  Check the MANIFEST to make sure that any new files are included. If
+7.  python setup.py build_doc
+8.  python setup.py sdist --manifest-only
+9.  Check the MANIFEST to make sure that any new files are included. If
     they are not, edit MANIFEST.in to include them. "Documentation" for
     MANIFEST.in may be found in disutils.filelist._parse_template_line.
-9.  python setup.py sdist
+10. python setup.py sdist
     (if you find sdist a little verbose, add "--quiet" to the end of the
      command)
-10. Unpack the new dist file in /tmp then a) run_test.py and b) demo.py
+11. Unpack the new dist file in /tmp then a) run_test.py and b) demo.py
     with all available Python versions.
-11. Generate gpg signature with "gpg -a --detach-sign"
-12. python setup.py bdist_rpm
-13. python setup.py bdist_wininst
-14. Send doc/announcement.txt to python-announce@python.org
+12. Assuming all is well tag the release in SVN::
+
+      svn cp https://roundup.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/roundup/roundup/trunk \
+      https://roundup.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/roundup/roundup/tags/release-1-4-16
+
+13. python setup.py bdist_rpm
+14. python setup.py bdist_wininst
+15. Send doc/announcement.txt to python-announce@python.org and
+    roundup-users@lists.sourceforge.net and
+    roundup-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
 
 So, those commands in a nice, cut'n'pasteable form::
 
@@ -37,12 +43,17 @@ So, those commands in a nice, cut'n'pasteable form::
  find . -name '*.rej' -exec rm {} \;
  find . -name '.#*' -exec rm {} \;
  python setup.py clean --all
+ python setup.py build_doc
  python setup.py sdist --manifest-only
  python setup.py sdist --quiet
  python setup.py bdist_rpm
  python setup.py bdist_wininst
  python setup.py register
  python setup.py sdist upload --sign
- python setup.py bdist_wininst upload --sign
+ python2.5 setup.py bdist_wininst upload --sign
 
 (if the last two fail make sure you're using python2.5+)
+Note that python2.6 won't correctly create a bdist_wininst install on
+Linux (it will produce a .exe with "linux" in the name). Maybe
+2.7 fixes this? (Ralf)
+