From 906ecabd71acc78b1d3ab658187919e196ee54d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Charles Harris Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 16:21:02 -0600 Subject: DOC: Document the new location of cversions.py. The instructions in HOWTO_RELEASE.rst.txt needed to be modified. --- doc/HOWTO_RELEASE.rst.txt | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/HOWTO_RELEASE.rst.txt') diff --git a/doc/HOWTO_RELEASE.rst.txt b/doc/HOWTO_RELEASE.rst.txt index 9742d3a15..8bbf93ad0 100644 --- a/doc/HOWTO_RELEASE.rst.txt +++ b/doc/HOWTO_RELEASE.rst.txt @@ -245,9 +245,10 @@ removed. 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. -- cgit v1.2.1