[issue20851] Update devguide to cover testing from a tarball

[Brett Cannon]

Brett Cannon added the comment:

I don't think this is worth doing.

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[issue20851] Update devguide to cover testing from a tarball

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray added the comment:

How to do it is part of PEP 101 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0101/).

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[issue20851] Update devguide to cover testing from a tarball

[Robert Collins]

Robert Collins added the comment:

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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[issue20851] Update devguide to cover testing from a tarball

[Larry Hastings]

Larry Hastings added the comment:

To make the tarballs, I use the release.py script from here:

https://hg.python.org/release

and run release.py --export versionnumber.  I haven't peeked inside the 
black box to see how the sausage is made.

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[issue20851] Update devguide to cover testing from a tarball

[Brett Cannon]

Brett Cannon added the comment:

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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[issue20851] Update devguide to cover testing from a tarball

[Larry Hastings]

Larry Hastings added the comment:

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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[issue20851] Update devguide to cover testing from a tarball

[Carol Willing]

Carol Willing added the comment:

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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[issue20851] Update devguide to cover testing from a tarball

[Ezio Melotti]

Changes by Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com:


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[issue20851] Update devguide to cover testing from a tarball

[Éric Araujo]

Changes by Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org:


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[issue20851] Update devguide to cover testing from a tarball

[Brett Cannon]

New submission from Brett Cannon:

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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