On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 8:49 PM, Tim Graham <timogra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> After doing releases about once a month for a while, I'm thinking it would
> be nice if releasing Django could be a bit more automated. As far as I
> know, the process hasn't changed too much in 10 years, while the state of
> Python packaging has improved.
>
> Currently doing a release requires bumping the VERSION tuple in
> django/__init__.py [0], creating tarball/wheel and checksum files, asking
> someone in IRC to verify the checks look fine, and upload files to various
> locations [1]. My idea would be to use setuptools_scm [2] (that choice
> because this is the only tool I know about) to eliminate the need to
> bump/set a VERSION tuple and instead fetch the version information based on
> git tags. Something like (based on what I found in djanog-hosts [3]):
>
> __version__ = pkg_resources.get_distribution('django').version
>
Oh, this will never work with my setup (*.dist-info are not saved).
It is always really needed the *.dist-info metadata?
Need to check this...
(just tried a sample and I can't use django-hosts for this...
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'django-hosts' distribution was not
found and is required by the application
not nice)
One issue I'm not sure how to deal with is how to provides
> backwards-compatibility for django.VERSION, the tuple format that looks
> something like:
>
> VERSION = (1, 11, 0, 'alpha', 0)
>
> I think removing or deprecating it would be quite disruptive for the
> community as I've seen lots of third-party apps that do checks like "if
> django.VERSION < (1, 9): ...", for example. I suspect it's possible to
> parse the version string to create something similar, but I wondered if
> anyone has experience with that.
>
if tuple(map(int,
pkg_resources.get_distribution('django').version.split('.')[:2])) < (1, 11):
...
and this doesn't work for '1.10a0'
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