On 20 September 2015 at 18:03, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
I'm certain that Steve was well aware of what he was getting into, Larry, at least with respect to Windows, I'm not so sure about. Not that it really matters to me. All I know is that the build procedures have been made easier on Windows, thanks mostly to Steve and Zach Ware in recent years, building on work done by Tim Golden, Martin v. Löwis and Mark Hammond amongst others.
From a process perspective, the release manager is responsible for wrangling the release process, tagging the source tree, and creating and publishing the source tarball, but the binary installers are in the hands of the platform specialists listed in the release PEP (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0478/ in the case of 3.5).
The full release process is at https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0101/, which has details of the unfortunately manual Windows installation testing process at the end. It might be interesting to see if running the installs at least in quiet mode could be automated on Appveyor to reduce the manual testing requirements. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia