| msg212722 - (view) |
Author: Brett Cannon (brett.cannon) *  |
Date: 2014-03-04 14:47 |
| Nick Coghlan brought up the fact that with Larry Hastings doing periodic tarball dumps for the 3.4.0 release it would be good to make sure instructions on how to actually test from a tarball were in the devguide. |
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| msg241768 - (view) |
Author: Carol Willing (willingc) * |
Date: 2015-04-22 04:12 |
| Brett, Is documentation for a testing a tarball dumped for an RC still needed? If so, are the following steps accurate? 1. Download tarball 2. Extract tarball into a directory tar -xzvf release.tar.gz 3. Change directory into release directory cd release 4. Install the release sudo python setup.py install My assumption: After installation above, testing should be similar to the existing devguide instructions for testing. Thoughts? |
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| msg241810 - (view) |
Author: Brett Cannon (brett.cannon) * |
Date: 2015-04-22 15:08 |
| I don't know if Larry is planning to do tarball releases for 3.5 (added him to the nosy to see). As for the install step, it would be best to suggest people install to a temp directory so they don't accidentally end up with a beta release stuck on their machines, e.g. `make --prefix=/tmp/cpython`. |
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| msg241820 - (view) |
Author: Larry Hastings (larry) * |
Date: 2015-04-22 18:09 |
| I don't plan on doing tarball-only drops during the 3.5 beta/rc period like I did during 3.4. However, when I do a release (e.g. 3.5.0a4), I release Windows binaries (built by Steve Dower), OS X binaries (built by Ned Deily), and source in tarballs. If you're on anything but Windows or OS X you have to build it yourself, from a tarball. So it probably makes sense to have instructions in the dev guide on how to do it. |
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| msg249021 - (view) |
Author: Robert Collins (rbcollins) * |
Date: 2015-08-23 21:16 |
| Possibly silly q: how does one /make/ a Python release tarball? 'make dist' which is the autoconf standard complains that it has no such target... |
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| msg249024 - (view) |
Author: R. David Murray (r.david.murray) * |
Date: 2015-08-23 22:21 |
| How to do it is part of PEP 101 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0101/). |
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| msg249026 - (view) |
Author: Larry Hastings (larry) * |
Date: 2015-08-23 22:47 |
| To make the tarballs, I use the "release.py" script from here: https://hg.python.org/release and run "release.py --export ". I haven't peeked inside the black box to see how the sausage is made. |
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| msg271016 - (view) |
Author: Brett Cannon (brett.cannon) * |
Date: 2016-07-22 19:49 |
| I don't think this is worth doing. |
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