Changes between Version 15 and Version 16 of TracDev/ReleaseChecklist

Timestamp:

Nov 28, 2009, 9:45:00 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

Christian Boos

Comment:

found out the reason of #8847, egg_info needs to be called before sdist on Windows, when using python f2.6

TracDev/ReleaseChecklist

@@ -13 +13 @@
  * Create dist packages
    * Check out trunk (or the release branch) to a '''clean''' sandbox
-   * Build source tarballs: 
-     - ''python setup.py sdist'' on Unix, in order to get the files in the `.tar.gz` with the proper LF line endings
-     - ''python setup.py sdist'' on Windows, in order to get the files in the `.zip` with the proper CRLF line endings; [[br]]
+   * Build source tarballs:
+     - On Unix: ''python setup.py sdist'' in order to get the files in the `.tar.gz` with the proper LF line endings
+     - On Windows:
+       - '''python setup.py egg_info''', otherwise data files will be missing; 
+         whether this is really needed or not seems to be highly depending on the version of Python.
+         With 2.4.4 it's not needed, with 2.5.4 `sdist` won't work even with this step (!), 
+         with 2.6.1 it is needed.
+       - ''python setup.py sdist'', in order to get the files in the `.zip` with the proper CRLF line endings; [[br]]
        verify with zipinfo that the content is OK (once the templates were missing!)
    * Build RPMs: ''python setup.py bdist_rpm''