Need good code for building Twisted release tarballs.

[radix]

We need a Tarball build application framework tool solution.

[radix]

So, this thing needs to

• Build any C extensions in any subprojects
• Generate HOWTOs into HTML
• Create tarballs for Twisted and all subprojects (Core, Conch, etc)
• It *doesn't* need to mess with versioning (except perhaps to name the tarballs or whatever); there is other code that is going to be used to update the version references in the branch.

[radix]

Sorry, it doesn't need to build C extensions.

[therve]

(In [21757]) Branching to 'build-tarball-2886'

[therve]

(In [21758]) Preliminary stuff.

Refs #2886

[therve]

(In [21940]) Branching to 'build-tarball-2886-2'

[therve]

(In [21941]) Manual merge forward.

Refs #2886

[therve]

(In [21942]) Merged forward.

Refs #2886

[radix]

I've decided to split the doc-generating stuff out of this into #2925.

[therve]

(In [21999]) This was moved.

Refs #2886

[zooko]

I have a request from a user to receive twisted .tar.gz's instead of .tar.bz2's. Apparently Mac OS X doesn't come with bzip2 support.

[jml]

I find that hard to believe.

[radix]

(In [22170]) Branching to 'build-tarball-2886-3'

[therve]

Back to you. Don't hesitate to reassign to me with some tasks.

[exarkun]

(In [22613]) Branching to 'build-tarball-2886-4'

[therve]

(In [22808]) Branching to 'build-tarball-2886-5'

[dreid]

Don't ship TwistedWeb2 with Twisted-8.0.0

[dreid]

The mangling of the working copy or export when you build the tarballs (doc generation, deleting the xhtml files) is a little wonky.

Also if there are .pycs in that copy they get put into the tarball. If it's always going to run on an export I guess it doesn't matter.

There is also no NEWS file.

[radix]

Dreid has given the +1 to this branch in meatspace.

[radix]

This has been merged to trunk in r22868.