release.py induced and manual editing steps for 3.0a4.
diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
index a3aac4c..89a8527 100644
--- a/Include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
@@ -15,14 +15,16 @@
/* Higher for patch releases */
/* Version parsed out into numeric values */
+/*--start constants--*/
#define PY_MAJOR_VERSION 3
#define PY_MINOR_VERSION 0
#define PY_MICRO_VERSION 0
#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_ALPHA
-#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL 3
+#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL 4
/* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION "3.0a3+"
+#define PY_VERSION "3.0a4"
+/*--end constants--*/
/* Subversion Revision number of this file (not of the repository) */
#define PY_PATCHLEVEL_REVISION "$Revision$"
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/__init__.py b/Lib/distutils/__init__.py
index 0c3d939..b583e39 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/__init__.py
@@ -18,4 +18,7 @@
# In general, major and minor version should loosely follow the Python
# version number the distutils code was shipped with.
#
-__version__ = "2.6.0"
+
+#--start constants--
+__version__ = "3.0a4"
+#--end constants--
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py b/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py
index fa352a7..0a82c9a 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-IDLE_VERSION = "3.0a3"
+IDLE_VERSION = "3.0a4"
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 8aa1f30..58d64c8 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
What's New in Python 3.0a4?
===========================
-*Release date: XX-XXX-2008*
+*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
diff --git a/Misc/RPM/python-3.0.spec b/Misc/RPM/python-3.0.spec
index 73eba56..25e25ef 100644
--- a/Misc/RPM/python-3.0.spec
+++ b/Misc/RPM/python-3.0.spec
@@ -33,8 +33,10 @@
#################################
%define name python
-%define version 2.6a1
-%define libvers 2.6
+#--start constants--
+%define version 3.0a4
+%define libver 3.0
+#--end constants--
%define release 1pydotorg
%define __prefix /usr
diff --git a/README b/README
index e9d00a9..b5efc82 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is Python version 3.0 alpha 3
+This is Python version 3.0 alpha 4
==================================
For notes specific to this release, see RELNOTES in this directory.
@@ -21,13 +21,14 @@
Release Schedule
----------------
-The release plan is to have a series of alpha releases in 2007, beta
-releases in 2008, and a final release in August 2008. The alpha
-releases are primarily aimed at developers who want a sneak peek at
-the new langauge, especially those folks who plan to port their code
-to Python 3000. The hope is that by the time of the final release,
-many 3rd party packages will already be available in a 3.0-compatible
-form.
+The release plan is to have a series of alpha releases in 2007 and 2008,
+beta releases in 2008, and a final release in August 2008. The alpha
+releases are primarily aimed at developers who want a sneak peek at the
+new langauge, especially those folks who plan to port their code to
+Python 3000. The hope is that by the time of the final release, many
+3rd party packages will already be available in a 3.0-compatible form.
+
+See PEP 361 for release details: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/
Documentation
@@ -38,12 +39,12 @@
http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/
All documentation is also available online at the Python web site
-(http://docs.python.org/, see below). It is available online for occasional
-reference, or can be downloaded in many formats for faster access. The
-documentation is downloadable in HTML, PostScript, PDF, LaTeX (through 2.5), and
-reStructuredText (2.6+) formats; the LaTeX and reStructuredText versions are
-primarily for documentation authors, translators, and people with special
-formatting requirements.
+(http://docs.python.org/, see below). It is available online for
+occasional reference, or can be downloaded in many formats for faster
+access. The documentation is downloadable in HTML, PostScript, PDF,
+LaTeX (through 2.5), and reStructuredText (2.6+) formats; the LaTeX and
+reStructuredText versions are primarily for documentation authors,
+translators, and people with special formatting requirements.
This is a work in progress; please help improve it!
@@ -86,7 +87,7 @@
release under development).
Proposals for enhancement
-------------------------------
+-------------------------
If you have a proposal to change Python, you may want to send an email to the
comp.lang.python or python-ideas mailing lists for inital feedback. A Python