Release Process

This page is for the developers/maintainers. It contains the steps involved in making a new public release of py2exe.

1. Change the __version__ string in py2exe\__init__.py

2. Update ANNOUNCE (be sure to change the version number on the first line)

3. Update copyright date in docs\license.txt and setup.py

4. Update docs\py2exe.txt

5. Run docs\html.cmd to generate html

6. Commit above files to svn

7. Run build.cmd to build for all versions of Python

8. Install for all versions of Python (test\reinstall.cmd can help)

9. Run test\test.py to ensure everything works

10. Tag all files in svn as release_x_y_z where x_y_z is py2exe.___version___

11. Create a File Release on SourceForge (use py2exe.___version___ as the release name)

12. Run docs\updateweb.cmd to publish website

13. Run setup.py register to update the Python Package Index

14. Update News

15. Send ANNOUNCE to py2exe-users, comp.lang.python, comp.lang.python.announce

16. Change the __version__ string in py2exe\__init__.py to a development version to distinguish it from released versions

17. Commit above file to svn