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iw.releaser package
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What is iw.releaser ?
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iw.releaser provides command line utilities to make it easier to release
and deploy zc.buildout/subversion based projects.

It provides:

- new setuptools commands 
  - `release`: used to release an egg-based package;
  - `build_mo`: used to search and compile .po file

- console scripts
  - `project_release`: used to release a buildout based project
  - `project_deploy`: used to deploy a buildout based project
  - `project_copy_eggs`: used to collect all eggs used in a project
  - `project_md5`: used to compute the MD5 hash of a buildout project

- a hook to be able to launch actions when a package is released

- a paste template to create a project structure

How to install iw.releaser ?
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To install `iw.releaser`, you just need to run easy_install::

    $ easy_install iw.releaser

or you can launch its setup if you have downloaded it::

    $ python setup.py install

How to use iw.releaser ?
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To work with iw.releaser, let's do a small tutorial on how to create
a buildbout-based project. This is done in a few steps:

0. setting up your environement
1. creating the project structure
2. creating egg-based packages 
3. releasing eggs
4. releasing the buildout
5. upgrading an existing buildout

Setting up your environement
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The first thing to do to work smoothly with zc.buildout is to set up a
few things on your environment to make sure you can run all kind of
buildout-based applications.

Put two files in your home directory:

- `HOME/.buildout/.httpauth`: this file will contain the authentication
  informations when the system tries to reach a http ressource which is
  password protected (like a svn or a private web site). 
  It is a text file where each line is: realm,url,user,password

  For example::

    trac,https://svn.ingeniweb.com,user,password
    pypi,http://products.ingeniweb.com,user,password

- `HOME/.buildout/default.cfg`: this file set some defaults values, so 
  zc.buildout can cache and spare downloaded eggs. 
  
  For example::

    [buildout]

    download-cache = /home/tarek/.buildout/downloads
    eggs-directory = /home/tarek/.buildout/eggs

Next, you need to make sure you can release your eggs to several 
targets, because some private eggs are not to be published at the 
cheeseshop. At this time, the only software that provides the same
web services than Cheeseshop is Plone Software Center >= 1.5.

To make it possible to handle several cheeseshop-like servers, 
we need to install a small addon, called `iw.dist`::

    $ easy_install iw.dist

This will allow you to define several servers in .pypirc. For instance
if you are working with a private cheeseshop-like server you can define
it like this in HOME/.pypirc ::

    [distutils]
    index-servers =
        pypi
        ingeniweb-public

    [pypi]
    username:ingeniweb
    password:secret

    [ingeniweb-public]
    repository:http://products.ingeniweb.com/catalog
    username:ingeniweb
    password:secret

Last, you need to define the release strategy configuration, that
will provide for each target server the packages that must be released
there (regular expressions) and the command sequence that is used
with setup.py. Here's a default example::

    [release]
    commands =
        ingeniweb-public
        pypi

    [ingeniweb-public]
    command = mregister sdist build_mo bdist_egg mupload
    packages =
        ^iw\..*

    [pypi]
    command = mregister sdist build_mo bdist_egg mupload
    packages =
        ^plone\..*
        ^collective\..*

This will push all eggs that starts with `plone.` or `collective.` 
to Pypi and all eggs that starts with `iw.` to ingeniweb-public.
The command used to push the packages are defined by `command`.

Creating the project structure
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Every project must be structurized the same way.
    
    $ paster create -t iw_plone_project my_project

This will ask you for a few values:

- project_name: the name of the project
- project_repo: the root of the subversion repository
- some more values that can be left to default.

This will generate a set of folders in `my_project`::

    $ ls my_project
    ./buildout
    ./bundles
    ./docs
    ./packages
    ./releases

Each folder has a role:

- buildout: contains the buildout
- bundles: contains the bundle used to work in develop mode
- docs: contains the docs
- packages: contains the egg-based package
- releases: contains the releases of the buildout

This structure must be commited in your subversion::
    
    $ svn import my_project http://some.svn/my_project -m "initial commit"

You will then be able to work in your buildout.

Creating egg-based package
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From there you can add some packages into the project, by putting them
in the `packages` folder, by using any template available in ZopeSkel.

**be carefull though, to use a trunk/tags/branches in packages for each 
project**

    $ cd my_projet/packages    
    $ paster create -t plone plone.example
    $ mv plone.example trunk
    $ mkdir plone.example
    $ mv trunk plone.example/
    $ mkdir plone.example/tags plone.example/branches
    $ svn add plone.example
    $ svn ci -m "initial import of  plone.example"

**Do not use trunk as a package name with paster, as this will generate
bad metadata in the package**

From there you can bind the package to your buildout, with a develop 
variable, in your my_project/buildout folder::

    [buildout]
    ...
    develop=
        .../packages/monprojet.reports/trunk

The `bundle` folder can also be used to set svn:externals to make it
simpler to work in the buildout.

Releasing eggs 
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Releasing eggs is done by calling `release` from a package::

    $ python setup.py release
    running release
    This package is version 0.1.2
    Do you want to run tests before releasing ? [y/N]: N
    Do you want to create the release ? If no, you will just be able to deploy again the current release [y/N]: Y
    Enter a version [0.1.2]: 0.1.2
    Commiting changes...
    Creating branches...
    ...

This will take care of upgrading the setup.py version, creating the tag 
in svn, and pushing the package to the various cheeseshop-like servers.

Releasing the project 
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Releasing the project consists of calling `project_release` then
`project_deploy`::

    $ cd my_project/buildout
    $ project_release
    What version you are releasing ? 0.1
    Added version file.

This will copy `my_project/buildout` to `my_project/releases/0.1` in 
subversion. You can then work in this release, to pinpoint the versions.

The next step is to generate a tarball::

    $ cd /tmp
    $ svn co http://somesvn/my_projet/releases/0.1 my_project
    $ cd my_project
    $ project_deploy prod.cfg

This will build a tarball in /tmp, and set everything up so the buildout
can be reinstalled offline anywhere with this archive.

Upgrading an existing buildout
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To upgrade an existing buildout, you can use the `project_eggs` command.
It will create a tarball with all eggs needed to run the project.

Run it in your buildout, by pointing the .cfg and giving the name of
the archive::

    $ project_eggs buildout.cfg /tmp/upgrade.tgz

You can even give a filter to collect specific packages
with glob-like names, separated by commas::

    $ project_eggs buildout.cfg /tmp/upgrade.tgz "iw.*,plone.*"

This filter will only get the eggs starting with `iw.` and `plone.`.


