[GH holland-backup#34] Added scripts/make_release.py to generate a so…

…urce distribution

cleaned up script and dropped subprocess and tarfile dependency

scripts/make_release.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+import sys
+import shlex
+import logging
+import commands
+from tarfile import TarFile
+from optparse import OptionParser
+
+def main(args=None):
+    parser = OptionParser()
+    parser.add_option('--version', default=None)
+    opts, args = parser.parse_args(args)
+
+    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO,
+                        format='[%(levelname)s] %(message)s')
+
+    if not opts.version:
+        version = commands.getoutput('python setup.py --version')
+    else:
+        version = opts.version
+
+    name = 'holland-%s' % version
+
+    status, output = commands.getstatusoutput('git archive --prefix=%s/ HEAD '
+                                              '| gzip --fast > %s.tar.gz' %
+                                              (name, name))
+    if status != 0:
+        logging.error("%s failed.", sys.argv[0])
+        return 1
+    else:
+        logging.info("created archive %s.tar.gz", name)
+        return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    sys.exit(main())