Housecleaning. Also for cherry picking on to master.

- Fix links in conf.py
- Update MANIFEST.in to include static JavaScript files
- Use modern tools like tox for making a release

MANIFEST.in

@@ -9,6 +9,6 @@ include lingua.ini tox.ini
 include i18n.sh run-selenium-tests.bash
 include pyproject.toml
 include .coveragerc .isort.cfg .flake8
-recursive-include deform *.js
+recursive-include deform/static *.js
 
 global-exclude __pycache__ *.py[cod]

RELEASING.txt

@@ -23,18 +23,16 @@ Prepare new release branch
 
 - On release branch:
 
-  $ git pull
-
-- Do platform test via tox:
+    git pull
 
 - Make sure your Python has ``setuptools-git``, ``twine``, and ``wheel``
   installed:
 
-    $ $VENV/bin/easy_install setuptools-git twine wheel
+    $VENV/bin/pip install setuptools-git twine wheel
 
 - Do a platform test:
 
-    $ tox -r
+    tox -r
 
 - Ensure all features of the release are documented (audit CHANGES.txt or
   communicate with contributors).
@@ -44,9 +42,6 @@ Prepare new release branch
 - Update README.rst to use correct versions of badges and URLs according to
   each branch and context, i.e., RTD "latest" == GitHub/Travis "2.0-branch".
 
-- Update whatsnew-X.X.rst in docs to point at change log entries for
-  individual releases if applicable.
-
 - For major version releases, in contributing.md, update branch descriptions.
 
 - For major version releases, in docs/conf.py, update values under
@@ -56,26 +51,26 @@ Prepare new release branch
 
 - Change setup.py version to the release version number.
 
-- Make sure PyPI long description renders (requires ``collective.dist``
-  installed into your Python)::
+- Run a check with black, ensure the PyPI long description renders, and run
+  check-manifest with the following command.
 
-    $ $VENV/bin/python setup.py check -r
+    $VENV/bin/tox -e lint
 
 - Build an sdist and a wheel:
 
-    $ $VENV/bin/python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
+    $VENV/bin/tox -e build
 
 - Release the wheels to PyPI:
 
-    $ $VENV/bin/twine upload dist/deform-X.Y*
+    $VENV/bin/twine upload dist/deform-X.Y.Z*
 
 - Upload a git tag for the release:
 
-    $ git tag X.Y
-    $ git push origin X.Y
+    git tag X.Y.Z
+    git push origin X.Y.Z
 
-- Update RTD to render a new version of the docs at that tag X.Y and set X.Y
-  as the default branch such that /latest/ points to it.
+- Update RTD to render a new version of the docs at that tag X.Y.Z and set
+  X.Y.Z as the default branch such that ``/latest/`` points to it.
 
 - Publish new version of docs.
 
@@ -87,7 +82,7 @@ Prepare new release branch
 Deform 2.x released.
 
 PyPI
-https://pypi.python.org/pypi/deform/2.x
+https://pypi.org/project/deform/2.X.X
 
 === One time only for new version, first pre-release ===
 What's New
@@ -109,15 +104,17 @@ Here are the changes:
 
 <<changes>>
 
-Links
+Widget demos
+https://deformdemo.repoze.org/
 
-- Widget demos http://deformdemo.repoze.org/
+Documentation
+https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/deform/en/latest/
 
-- Documentation http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/deform/en/master/
+GitHub
+https://github.com/pylons/deform
 
-- Github https://github.com/pylons/deform
-
-- PyPi https://pypi.python.org/pypi/deform/
+PyPI
+https://pypi.org/project/deform/2.X.X
 
 Enjoy, and please report any issues you find to the issue tracker at
 https://github.com/Pylons/deform/issues

docs/conf.py

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 intersphinx_mapping = {
     'colander': ('https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/colander/en/latest/', None),
     'pyramid': ('https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/latest', None),
-    'python': ('https://docs.python.org/dev/', None),
+    'python': ('https://docs.python.org/3/', None),
     }
 
 # Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@
 
 # The unique identifier of the text. This can be a ISBN number
 # or the project homepage.
-epub_identifier = 'https://deform.readthedocs.org/'
+epub_identifier = 'https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/deform/en/latest/'
 
 # A unique identification for the text.
 epub_uid = epub_title

tox.ini

@@ -79,8 +79,10 @@ commands =
     pip install deform[testing,functional]
     ./run-selenium-tests.bash --with-flaky --max-runs=4 {posargs}
 
+
 [testenv:build]
 skip_install = true
+basepython = python3.8
 commands =
     # clean up build/ and dist/ folders
     python -c 'import shutil; shutil.rmtree("dist", ignore_errors=True)'