releasecmd 0.4.0

releasecmd is a release subcommand for setup.py (setuptools.setup). the subcommand create a git tag and push, and upload packages to PyPI.

releasecmd

Summary

releasecmd is a release subcommand for setup.py (setuptools.setup). The subcommand create a git tag and push, and upload packages to PyPI.

The subcommand class (releasecmd.ReleaseCommand) is implemented as a subclass of setuptools.Command class. The release subcommand will do the followings:

1. Find a file that defined the package version (e.g. <package>/__init__.py)
2. Create .asc files if --sign option is specified

3. Create a git tag from the package version information

   • GPG signing to the git tag if --sign option is specified

4. Push git tags
5. Upload package files to PyPI by using twine

release command options

Options for 'ReleaseCommand' command:
  --skip-tagging  skip a git tag creation
  --dry-run       do no harm
  --sign          make a GPG-signed tag
  --dir           specify a search root directory path. defaults to the
                  current directory.
  --tag-template  specify git tag format. defaults to 'v{version}'.
  --version       specify version manually

Example

$ python setup.py release
running release
[get the version from ./releasecmd/__version__.py]
[create a git tag: v0.0.15]
[push git tags]
[upload the package to PyPI]
...

prerequisite: package binaries must bein in the dist/ directory.

Specify version manually

You can specify a vesion manually by --version option:

$ python setup.py release --version 0.1.0
[create a git tag: v0.1.0]
[push git tags]
[upload packages to PyPI]

Create a GPG signed tag and upload packages

$ python setup.py release --sign
running release
[get the version from ./releasecmd/__version__.py]
[create a .asc file for releasecmd-0.1.0.tar.gz]
[create a .asc file for releasecmd-0.1.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl]
[create a git tag with gpg signing: v0.1.0]
[push git tags]
[upload packages to PyPI]
...

Skip create a git tag and upload packages

$ python setup.py release --skip-tagging
running release
[get the version from ./releasecmd/__version__.py]
[push git tags]
[upload packages to PyPI]
...

Dependencies

• Python 3.5+
• git