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+Building Releases
+=================
+
+Roundup is a pure Python application with no binary components. This file
+describes how to build a source release. To find out how to install
+Roundup, read the doc/installation.txt file.
+
+Roundup release checklist:
+
+1.  Run unit tests! They should pass successfully. "./run_tests.py"
+2.  Change version in roundup/__init__.py, record date in CHANGES.txt.
+3.  Update doc/announcement.txt with new details.
+4.  Clean out all *.orig, *.rej, .#* files from the source.
+5.  python setup.py clean --all
+6.  Edit setup.py to ensure that all information therein (contacts,
+    classifiers, etc) is correct.
+7.  python setup.py build_doc
+8.  python setup.py sdist --manifest-only
+9.  Check the MANIFEST to make sure that any new files are included. If
+    they are not, edit MANIFEST.in to include them. "Documentation" for
+    MANIFEST.in may be found in disutils.filelist._parse_template_line.
+10. python setup.py sdist
+    (if you find sdist a little verbose, add "--quiet" to the end of the
+     command)
+11. Unpack the new dist file in /tmp then a) run_test.py and b) demo.py
+    with all available Python versions.
+12. Assuming all is well tag the release in the version-control system.
+13. python setup.py bdist_rpm
+14. python setup.py bdist_wininst
+15. Send doc/announcement.txt to python-announce@python.org and
+    roundup-users@lists.sourceforge.net and
+    roundup-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
+
+So, those commands in a nice, cut'n'pasteable form::
+
+ find . -name '*.orig' -exec rm {} \;
+ find . -name '*.rej' -exec rm {} \;
+ find . -name '.#*' -exec rm {} \;
+ python setup.py clean --all
+ python setup.py build_doc
+ python setup.py sdist --manifest-only
+ python setup.py sdist --quiet
+ python setup.py bdist_rpm
+ python setup.py bdist_wininst
+ python setup.py register
+ python setup.py sdist upload --sign
+ python2.5 setup.py bdist_wininst upload --sign
+
+(if the last two fail make sure you're using python2.5+)
+Note that python2.6 won't correctly create a bdist_wininst install on
+Linux (it will produce a .exe with "linux" in the name). 2.7 still has
+this bug (Ralf)
+