[Product-Developers] setup.py releases (mkrelease), plone.org product listing and Plone 4 compatibility

[Alex Clark]

On 4/12/11 5:00 PM, David Glick wrote:
> On 4/12/11 1:58 PM, Mikko Ohtamaa wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I found out that Web and Mobile does not appear in Download& Extend
>> listing.
>>
>> http://plone.org/products/web-and-mobile
>>
>> I suspect the reason is that
>>
>> * The egg has been release using mkrelease
>>
>> * The metadata for the release does not state Plone 4 compatibility, or
>> plone.org does not pick it up
>>
>> All other packages say they are "Plone 4 compatible". What do I need
>> to in
>> order to announce "Plone 4 compatibility" with my package, but so that
>> I can
>> still use automatic release tools?
> I always make releases using jarn.mkrelease, then log into plone.org,
> edit the release and set the compatibility info. There isn't a way for
> this to get set automatically at this point.

Ditto, tedious. I'm very interested in improving this in PSC possibly 
via http://packages.python.org/distribute/pkg_resources.html#metadata-api

Anyone know of any code that uses custom metadata in setup.py I can look at?


Alex



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