[Zope-dev] New release for zope.schema

[Jan-Carel Brand]

On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 19:07 +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:19:39PM +0100, Jan-Carel Brand wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 19:58 +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> > > Also, would you like to have PyPI access to zope.schema, so that you can
> > > do the release yourself?  If so, tell us your PyPI username.
> > 
> > Sure, my pypi username is: jcbrand
> 
> You now have PyPI access to zope.schema.
> 
> 
> One detail I may have forgotten to mention about the release process:
> sometimes setup.py sdist produces an incomplete archive.  This happens
> every time Subversion changes its working tree format, until somebody
> patches setuptools to understand it.  I think subversion 1.7 changed the
> format again; I don't know if setuptools can handle it yet -- I'm still
> on svn 1.6 myself.
> 
> So it may be a good idea to run python setup.py sdist and compare the
> file list in dists/*.tar.gz with the file list in the current PyPI
> archive, before you actually do the release with fullrelease.  Actually
> zest.releaser's fullrelease has lots of "continue? [y/n]" prompts that
> let you do the inspection before the final upload.  I just feel better
> when I do it by hand, on those rare occasions when I'm not sure about
> the state of my setuptools after a distro upgrade.  YMMV.  And the
> chances of breakage are low, and people generally notice it pretty
> quickly, and uploading a fixed 4.1.1 is easy (edit MANIFEST.in to make
> sure everything is included), so I don't even know why I'm mentioning
> all this.  For completeness, I guess...

Thanks, it's helpful.

setuptools also doesn't play nicely with git. So I've had to edit
MANIFESET.in before. I'll double check manually.

There is however still the Python 3 bug in zope.schema. (See my previous
post).