Re: QEMU release tagging script?

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 13:32, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> wrote:
> Is there a script that's public that you use for tagging the QEMU
> release? I see make-release in scripts/, but that's for creating the
> tarballs after the tagging has been done.

I use this script:
https://git.linaro.org/people/peter.maydell/misc-scripts.git/tree/qemu-tag-release

> I am looking into being able to cut releases for our Python QMP library,
> but due to constraints in the Python packaging ecosystem I have not yet
> been able to solve, it requires its own VERSION file.
>
> It would be nice if when 5.2.0 is tagged that "0.5.2.0" could be written
> into ./python/VERSION as well.

I'm pretty strongly against having the version hardcoded
anywhere except the top level VERSION file. Everything else
should read the information from there.

thanks
-- PMM