[Zope3-dev] Re: faulty releases and pypi access [update]

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

On 26 Sep 2007, at 23:41 , Stephan Richter wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 September 2007 17:34, Jim Fulton wrote:
>> On Sep 26, 2007, at 5:28 PM, Stephan Richter wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 26 September 2007 17:18, Jim Fulton wrote:
>>>> - Update changes.txt, adding a heading for the new # and date
>>>>
>>>> - Create a tag
>>>>
>>>> - check out or switch to the tag
>>>>
>>>> - Set the version in setup.py on the tag. Check it in.
>>>>
>>>> - Make the release from the tag.
>>>
>>> Changing tags is not that good. I'd rather check in a aversion  
>>> number
>>> then. ;-)
>>
>> This is exactly what we've been doing for Zope 3 releases -- for the
>> same reason.  I think it is the one acceptable and reasonable change
>> to a tag.  The benefit of forcing us to release from a tag is, imo,
>> significant.
>
> Here is a problem that I discussed with Marius earlier today.
>
> I often do not know whether all my setup.py settings are correct  
> until I try
> to upload a release. I frequently get the "Development Status"  
> classifier
> wrong and I won't be told it is wrong until I try to register the  
> release.

A good way to catch errors before you mess with the CheeseShop is to  
create the egg info and look at it:

   $ python setup.py egg_info
   $ less src/EGG.egg-info/PKG-INFO

> So I usually create the release first and upload it and after that  
> create the
> tag.

Well, you could just as well re-tag when you screwed up. Or just fix  
minor things on the tag and merge them back to the branch.