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PyObjC - (Developers) The PyObjC release process

This document gives an exhaustive overview of what needs to be done when building and releasing a new version of PyObjC. It is meant for the project administrators, and not of much use for users of PyObjC.

The timeframe is a guideline only and should be taken with a grain of salt.

Release date -2 weeks

Full feature freeze, documentation updates and critical bug-fixes only. At this time:

  • Check if the NEWS file is up-to-date
  • Tests the tutorial(s) Read the tutorial(s) and follow the instructions exactly, the tutorials should be completely bug-free.
  • Proofread the documentation
  • Update the announcement messages.

Release-date -3 days

Build the release tarball and dmg:

  • Add the correct date to the NEWS file, and set the right version in Modules/objc/pyobjc.h.
  • Run python setup.py sdist to build the source tarball.
  • Run python setup.py bdist_dmg to build a binary installer. This should be done for each supported version combination of Mac OS X and Python.

Trash you existing PyObjC installation and reinstall from the new release. Test that the new release is working correctly. Installing and testing should be done for the binary installer and for the source archive. The latter should be done for all supported configurations. Also test to make sure that an upgrade from a previous release works as expected.

If the package works as expected, upload to a convenient location and ask some other people (like the other maintainers) to test the new release.

Release-date
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