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| author | Jason R. Coombs <jaraco@jaraco.com> | 2016-04-26 12:01:09 -0400 |
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| committer | Jason R. Coombs <jaraco@jaraco.com> | 2016-04-26 12:01:09 -0400 |
| commit | a73118b9e3c125910ce3a50ab1e676632b4c12d1 (patch) | |
| tree | c267bc4e78ec285ab9a5f03aa0902eeea8401048 /docs | |
| parent | 661440a9248792656455022b6fba51343e58cd50 (diff) | |
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Remove ez_setup.py from master branch (and packaged sdist releases).
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diff --git a/docs/releases.txt b/docs/releases.txt index 3f29334a..c84ddd75 100644 --- a/docs/releases.txt +++ b/docs/releases.txt @@ -10,23 +10,20 @@ successful build of a tagged release per To cut a release, install and run ``bumpversion {part}`` where ``part`` is major, minor, or patch based on the scope of the changes in the release. Then, push the commits to the master branch. If tests pass, -the release will be uploaded to PyPI. +the release will be uploaded to PyPI (from the Python 3.5 tests). -Bootstrap Bookmark ------------------- +Bootstrap Branch +---------------- -Setuptools has a bootstrap script (ez_setup.py) which is hosted in the -repository and must be updated with each release (to bump the default version). -The "published" version of the script is the one indicated by the ``bootstrap`` -branch. +Setuptools has a bootstrap script (ez_setup.py), which is hosted in the +repository in the ``bootstrap`` branch. -Therefore, the latest bootstrap script can be retrieved by checking out the -repository at that bookmark. It's also possible to get the bootstrap script for -any particular release by grabbing the script from that tagged release. +Therefore, the latest bootstrap script can be retrieved by checking out +that branch. The officially-published location of the bootstrap script is hosted on Python infrastructure (#python-infra on freenode) at https://bootstrap.pypa.io and -is updated every fifteen minutes from the bootstrap script. Sometimes, +is updated every fifteen minutes from the bootstrap branch. Sometimes, especially when the bootstrap script is rolled back, this process doesn't work as expected and requires manual intervention. |