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authorCharles Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com>2014-05-04 16:21:02 -0600
committerCharles Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com>2014-05-04 22:05:45 -0600
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DOC: Document the new location of cversions.py.
The instructions in HOWTO_RELEASE.rst.txt needed to be modified.
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Check the C API version number
------------------------------
The C API version number is recorded in core/code_generators/cversions.txt.
-Before every release this number should be updated by running
-core/code_generators/cversions.py, and main changes noted in a comment. If
-this is done correctly, compiling the release should not give a warning "API
+Before every release this number should be updated by running the script
+core/cversions.py to get the current hash and updating its value in
+cversions.txt, together with a comment, if its value has changed. If this
+is done correctly, compiling the release should not give a warning "API
mismatch detected ..." at the beginning of the build.
The C ABI version number should only be updated for a major release.