README.md hence github references wrong version

[GadgetSteve]

README.md States: Current version is 0.5.7 this is incorrect the latest version at the time of this ticket is 0.5.8 and should this ticket be addressed it will be at least 0.5.9

I suggest creating a release script which updates the "current" version everywhere needed, (i.e. README.md, metadata, embedded version, etc. and then creates the github release and does the publishes to pypi all in a single step.

[ljean]

Hello Gadget Steve,

That's a good suggestion. Do you already have some info for such a release script?

Best luc

[GadgetSteve]

Unfortunately it was done as a part of my work so I cannot share directly but basically:

• I prompt the developer for whether they are doing a test build, patch, minor or major release and give them options for adding modifiers such as release candidate. Then examine the git tags, (with dulwich) to determine what the last one was and use the appropriate next from semantic_version - this gives me my new version information.
• I then use some re magic in each of the files that are in the impacted list, (obviously I have marked the places that this is needed with something re-able).
• I then generate a suitable commit message such as New Major Release 3.0.0 and use that as the message for a git commit all (I found this easier to do via a subprocess.call than via dulwich but we have some strange security settings),
• add a tag using the version string,
• do the build(s) and zip the result(s) using zipfile and
• push the modifications to the repository.

(Obviously several of these steps are skipped for test builds).

In the case of release builds I automatically copy the zipped files to a file share, (Box in our case), and while I would love to automate the uploading to the internal github releases area against the tag the aforementioned security settings have defeated me so far so I open the default browser to the required location and the file explorer to the zip process output directory so all I need to do is select the latest tag and drag & drop the zip file(s).