mongo-python-driver/RELEASE.rst
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Some notes on PyMongo releases
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Versioning
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We shoot for a release every few months - that will generally just
increment the middle version number (e.g. 2.1.1 -> 2.2).
Minor releases are reserved for bug fixes (in general no new features
or deprecations) - they only happen in cases where there is a critical
bug in a recently released version, or when a release has no new
features or API changes.
In between releases we use a "+" version number to denote the version
under development. So if we just released 2.1, then the current dev
version would be 2.1+. When we make the next release (2.1.1 or 2.2) we
replace all instances of 2.1+ in the docs with the new version number.
Deprecation
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Changes should be backwards compatible unless absolutely necessary. When making
API changes the approach is generally to add a deprecation warning but keeping
the existing API functional. Eventually (after at least ~4 releases) we can
remove the old API.
Doing a Release
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1. Test release on Python 2.4-2.7 and 3.1-3.2 on Windows, Linux and OSX, with and without the C extension. Generally enough to just run the tests on 2.4, 2.7 and 3.2 with and without the extension on a single platform, and then just test any version on the other platforms as a sanity check. `python setup.py test` will build the extension and test. `python tools/clean.py` will remove the extension, and then `nosetests` will run the tests without it. Can also run the doctests: `python setup.py doc -t`. For building extensions on Windows check section below.
2. Add release notes to doc/changelog.rst. Generally just summarize/clarify the git log, but might add some more long form notes for big changes.
3. Search and replace the "+" version number w/ the new version number (see note above).
4. Make sure version number is updated in setup.py and pymongo/__init__.py
5. Commit with a BUMP version_number message.
6. Tag w/ version_number
7. Push commit / tag.
8. Push source to PyPI: `python setup.py sdist upload`
9. Push binaries to PyPI; for each version of python and platform do: `python setup.py bdist_egg upload`. Probably best to do `python setup.py bdist_egg` first, to make sure the egg builds properly. Notably on the Windows machine, for Python 2.4 and 2.5, you will have to run `python setup.py build -c mingw32 bdist_egg upload` or the C extension build will fail with an error about Visual Studio 2003. On Windows we also push a binary installer. The setup.py target for that is `bdist_wininst`.
10. Make sure the docs have properly updated (driver buildbot does this).
11. Add a "+" to the version number in setup.py/__init__.py, commit, push.
12. Announce!