OverviewReleasing a new download requires a few steps to be performed. For each release, the changes are listed in the release notes, pydocs are updated to reflect changes in the code, and the library source code, tests, etc. are packaged up in tar.gz files and .zip archives. The archives are then added to the Downloads section of this project. See detailed step by step instructions below. Steps- Write release notes for the new release in RELEASE_NOTES.txt.
- Update the version number in setup.py and in the user agent constant USER_AGENT in src/atom/http_interface.py and src/atom/client.py.
- Regenerate the pydoc documentation pages.
- if any new files have been added in this release, list them in the pydoc shell script: pydocs/generate_docs
- run the pydocs/generate_docs script
- Add new packages and files to the indexes so that they will be include in the archives and installed.
- edit the MANIFEST file, which lists all of the files which should be included in the .zip and .tar.gz archives
- edit the list of packages in setup.py. This list determines which packages will be compiled and installed on the user's system.
- Generate the download archives
- run python setup.py sdist --formats=gztar,zip which will create gdata.py-<version.number>.zip and .tar.gz files in the dist directory.
- upload the archives to the project's downloads page.
- Update the pypi (Python Package Index) listing for gdata.
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