PACKAGING.rst

PACKAGING

This guide is loosely following one of Hynek's fantastic blog posts:

https://hynek.me/articles/sharing-your-labor-of-love-pypi-quick-and-dirty/

Note

This document is meant as a help for the maintainer only.

Preparation

• make sure changelog is up to date
• make sure the long_description can be rendered properly, ie. check with longtest (zest.releaser)
• make sure the version number is set correctly in setup.py

Release process

# create a development environment

$ tox --devenv dev-env

# install all necessary build tools

$ dev-env/bin/pip install -U pip pep517 twine

# make clean slate

$ rm -rf build dist

# build the packages

$ dev-env/bin/python -m pep517.build .

# make clean slate

$ rm -rf venv-sdist

# create a venv for the sdist installation test

$ virtualenv venv-sdist

# install package in sdist format

$ venv-sdist/bin/pip install dist/Products.ZopeTree-3.0.0.tar.gz # swap version number

# check the installed package

$ venv-sdist/bin/python

>>> import Products.ZopeTree

# make clean slate

$ rm -rf venv-wheel

# create a venv for the wheel installation test

$ virtualenv venv-wheel

# install the package in wheel format

$ venv-wheel/bin/pip install dist/Products.ZopeTree-3.0.0-py3-none-any.whl # swap version number

# check the installed packaged

$ venv-wheel/bin/python

>>> import Products.ZopeTree

# upload to test pypi

$ dev-env/bin/twine upload -r test --sign dist/Products.ZopeTree*

# upload to pypi

$ dev-env/bin/twine upload -r pypi --sign dist/Products.ZopeTree*