From 1b60ca5d34c01613f11def93a8ecc672ca343858 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lance Edgar <lance@edbob.org>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2022 21:21:51 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add basic release task

---
 tasks.py | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 tasks.py

diff --git a/tasks.py b/tasks.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5ad2c81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tasks.py
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8; -*-
+"""
+Tasks for Messkit
+"""
+
+import os
+import shutil
+
+from invoke import task
+
+
+here = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+exec(open(os.path.join(here, 'messkit', '_version.py')).read())
+
+
+@task
+def release(ctx):
+    """
+    Release a new version of Messkit
+    """
+    # rebuild local tar.gz file for distribution
+    shutil.rmtree('Messkit.egg-info')
+    ctx.run('python setup.py sdist --formats=gztar')
+
+    # upload to public PyPI
+    ctx.run('twine upload dist/Messkit-{}.tar.gz'.format(__version__))