Deploy using Travis when pushing a Git tag

[bittner]

Instead of deploying from your local machine we should let Travis do the job of releasing new versions of this package. This has a few significant advantages:

1. What happens at releases is better documented with an audit trail (CI jobs log).
2. Releasing then enforces tagging on commits that are related to a release.
3. No software needs to be installed on your local machine for pushing a new release.

See these projects for working examples: (deploy job in .travis.yml)

• https://github.com/vshn/concierge-cli
• https://github.com/bittner/pyclean
• https://github.com/jazzband/django-analytical
• https://github.com/behave/behave-django

[cool-RR]

Agreed.

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[bittner]

You can now update the Travis configuration with your encrypted PyPI password. You'll need the travis CLI for this (I usually run a travis-cli Docker image, because the CLI is painful to install on my Ubuntu box). Afterwards pushing a Git tag will trigger a deployment on PyPI via Travis.

I'd also suggest to move the version number into the pysnooper/__init__.py file to avoid having to touch setup.py for each version bump. See examples:

• pyclean > __init__.py
• pyclean > setup.py

[cool-RR]

I'm going to put this on hold. When the Travis builds broke yesterday when I made the version change, I was completely helpless to fix them. I couldn't figure out how the .travis.yml and tox.ini files were dictating Travis's behavior. I had to try lots of different things and everything failed, so I bundled all the dependencies. I don't want to depend on Travis for releases because if it breaks in the future I might not have a known flow for making a release. Sorry.

We might revisit this later.