From 6ec9c850e802ec02e5fb89bbcc644faf982f9abf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Edgar=20Andr=C3=A9s=20Margffoy=20Tuay?= <andfoy@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 12:50:54 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add release instructions

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+To release a new version of pywinpty:
+
+## General steps
+
+* git fetch upstream && git merge upstream/master
+
+* Close release issue on github
+
+* Update CHANGELOG.md with loghub
+
+* Update VERSION_INFO in `__init__.py` (set release version, remove 'dev0')
+
+* git add and git commit
+
+* Open MSVC Command Prompt or execute msvarsall.bat script
+
+* set DISTUTILS_USE_SDK=1
+
+* python setup.py sdist
+
+## Per each PY3 version (3.5/3.6) and each architecture (amd64/win32) we should do
+
+* conda install winpty -c spyder-ide
+
+* set LIBRARY_INC=<CONDA_ENV_PATH>\Library\include
+
+* set LIBRARY_LIB=<CONDA_ENV_PATH>\Library\lib
+
+* python setup.py bdist_wheel
+
+## Uploading wheels
+
+* twine upload dist\\*
+
+**Note:** Do not forget to update conda packages
+
+## Create github release
+
+* git tag -a vX.X.X -m 'comment'
+
+* Update VERSION_INFO in `__init__.py` (add 'dev0' and increment minor)
+
+* git add and git commit
+
+* git push upstream master
+
+* git push upstream --tags