RELEASE.md

Release

PyMeasure package

1. Pull the latest master branch
2. git checkout -b v<version>_release
3. Update all version references (grep -rnI '<previous_version>')
   • setup.py
   • docs/conf.py
   • pymeasure/init.py
4. Update CHANGES.txt with the changelog
5. Push the changes up as a PR
6. Verify that the builds complete
7. Merge the PR
8. Build the source packages
   • python setup.py bdist_wheel
   • python setup.py sdist
9. Create a tagged release on GitHub

conda-forge feedstock

1. Pull the latest master branch
2. git checkout -b v<version>_release
3. Download the tarball and determine the sha256 checksum
   • wget -qO- https://github.com/pymeasure/pymeasure/archive/<version>.tar.gz | sha256sum
4. Update recipe/meta.yml with the checksum and version number
5. Push the changes up as a PR
6. Verify that the builds complete
7. Merge the PR

PyPI release

1. Ensure twine is the latest version (pip install -U twine)
2. Check the distributions (twine check dist/*)
3. Upload the wheel and source distributions to the test server
   • twine upload --repository-url https://test.pypi.org/legacy/ dist/PyMeasure-<version>-py3-none-any.whl
   • twine upload --repository-url https://test.pypi.org/legacy/ dist/PyMeasure-<version>.tar.gz
4. Verify the test repository: https://test.pypi.org/project/PyMeasure
5. Upload to the real repository (twine upload dist/PyMeasure-<version>*)
6. Verify that the package is updated: https://pypi.org/project/PyMeasure