How to Make a Release

A core developer should use the following steps to create a release of scikit-build.

0. Configure ~/.pypirc as described here.

1. Make sure that all CI tests are passing.

2. Create the source tarball and binary wheels:

   git checkout master
   git fetch upstream
   git reset --hard upstream/master
   rm -rf dist/
   python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
   

3. Upload the packages to the testing PyPI instance:

   twine upload -r pypitest dist/*
   

4. Check the PyPI testing package page.

5. Tag the release. Requires a GPG key with signatures. For version X.Y.Z:

   git tag -s -m "scikit-build X.Y.Z" X.Y.Z upstream/master
   

6. Upload the packages to the PyPI instance:

   twine upload dist/*
   

7. Check the PyPI package page.

8. Make sure the package can be installed:

   mkvirtualenv skbuild-pip-install
   pip install scikit-build
   rmvirtualenv skbuild-pip-install
   

9. Update the version number in setup.py and skbuild/__init__.py and merge the result.