0 "9l4()P@ˁ~@S h9input:b0011v0002p0013e0006-e0,1,3,k110,111,112,ra0,1,mlsfw 7;l4()P@f.)F 0a4()P@˂ 2-#=lzTX_ţ e0=Tagging and "Daily Build" or "Snapshot" Releases ------------------------------------------------ When a set of related projects are under development, it may be important to track finer-grained version increments than you would normally use for e.g. "stable" releases. While stable releases might be measured in dotted numbers with alpha/beta/etc. status codes, development versions of a project often need to be tracked by revision or build number or even build date. This is especially true when projects in development need to refer to one another, and therefore may literally need an up-to-the-minute version of something! To support these scenarios, ``setuptools`` allows you to "tag" your source and egg distributions by adding one or more of the following to the project's "official" version identifier: * A manually-specified pre-release tag, such as "build" or "dev", or a manually-specified post-release tag, such as a build or revision number (``--tag-build=STRING, -bSTRING``) * An 8-character representation of the build date (``--tag-date, -d``), as a postrelease tag You can add these tags by adding ``egg_info`` and the desired options to the command line ahead of the ``sdist`` or ``bdist`` commands that you want to generate a daily build or snapshot for. See the section below on the :ref:`egg_info ` command for more details. (Also, before you release your project, be sure to see the section above on :ref:`Specifying Your Project's Version` for more information about how pre- and post-release tags affect how version numbers are interpreted. This is important in order to make sure that dependency processing tools will know which versions of your project are newer than others.) Finally, if you are creating builds frequently, and either building them in a downloadable location or are copying them to a distribution server, you should probably also check out the :ref:`rotate ` command, which lets you automatically delete all but the N most-recently-modified distributions matching a glob pattern. So, you can use a command line like:: setup.py egg_info -rbDEV bdist_egg rotate -m.egg -k3 to build an egg whose version info includes "DEV-rNNNN" (where NNNN is the most recent Subversion revision that affected the source tree), and then delete any egg files from the distribution directory except for the three that were built most recently. If you have to manage automated builds for multiple packages, each with different tagging and rotation policies, you may also want to check out the :ref:`alias ` command, which would let each package define an alias like ``daily`` that would perform the necessary tag, build, and rotate commands. Then, a simpler script or cron job could just run ``setup.py daily`` in each project directory. (And, you could also define sitewide or per-user default versions of the ``daily`` alias, so that projects that didn't define their own would use the appropriate defaults.) Generating Source Distributions ------------------------------- ``setuptools`` enhances the distutils' default algorithm for source file selection with pluggable endpoints for looking up files to include. If you are using a revision control system, and your source distributions only need to include files that you're tracking in revision control, use a corresponding plugin instead of writing a ``MANIFEST.in`` file. See the section below on :ref:`Adding Support for Revision Control Systems` for information on plugins. If you need to include automatically generated files, or files that are kept in an unsupported revision control system, you'll need to create a ``MANIFEST.in`` file to specify any files that the default file location algorithm doesn't catch. See the distutils documentation for more information on the format of the ``MANIFEST.in`` file. But, be sure t