release.py induced and manual editing steps for 3.0a4.

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  "$Revision$"

Lib/distutils/__init__.py

@@ -18,4 +18,7 @@ __revision__ = "$Id$"
 # 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--

Lib/idlelib/idlever.py

-IDLE_VERSION = "3.0a3"
+IDLE_VERSION = "3.0a4"

Misc/NEWS

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Python News
 What's New in Python 3.0a4?
 ===========================
 
-*Release date: XX-XXX-2008*
+*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
 
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------

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
 

README

-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 @@ the standard library namespace.
 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 @@ Documentation for Python 3000 is online, updated twice a day:
     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 @@ is incomplete, and also doesn't list anything merged in from the 2.6
 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