Use uv for publishing to PyPI instead of twine

Author: tleonhardt

.github/CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ for a list of dependencies needed for building `cmd2`.
 | [setuptools](https://pypi.org/project/setuptools/)       | `72.1.0`        | Python package management        |
 | [setuptools-scm](https://github.com/pypa/setuptools-scm) | `8.0.4`         | Manage your versions by scm tags |
 
-> [twine](https://github.com/pypa/twine) 5.1 or newer is also needed for publishing releases to
-> PyPI, but that is something only core maintainers need to worry about.
+> [uv-publish](https://pypi.org/project/uv-publish/) is also needed for publishing releases to PyPI,
+> but that is something only core maintainers need to worry about.
 
 #### Additional prerequisites for developing cmd2
 

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-## 4.0.0 (TBD, 2026)
+## 3.1.0 (December 25, 2025)
 
 - Potentially Breaking Changes
     - `cmd2` no longer has a dependency on `cmd` and `cmd2.Cmd` no longer inherits from `cmd.Cmd`
         - We don't _think_ this should impact users, but there is theoretically a possibility
+        - This opens the door for more impactful changes in the next major release
 
 ## 3.0.0 (December 7, 2025)
 

Makefile

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ docs: ## Build and serve the documentation
 .PHONY: build
 build: clean-build ## Build wheel file
 	@echo "🚀 Creating wheel file"
-	@uvx --from build pyproject-build --installer uv
+	@uv build
 
 .PHONY: clean-build
 clean-build: ## Clean build artifacts
@@ -66,14 +66,14 @@ validate-tag: ## Check to make sure that a tag exists for the current HEAD and i
 	@uv run inv validatetag
 
 .PHONY: publish-test
-publish-test: validate-tag build ## Test publishing a release to PyPI.
+publish-test: validate-tag build ## Test publishing a release to PyPI, uses token from ~/.pypirc file.
 	@echo "🚀 Publishing: Dry run."
-	@uvx twine upload --repository testpypi dist/*
+	@uv run uv-publish --repository testpypi
 
 .PHONY: publish
-publish: validate-tag build ## Publish a release to PyPI.
+publish: validate-tag build ## Publish a release to PyPI, uses token from ~/.pypirc file.
 	@echo "🚀 Publishing."
-	@uvx twine upload dist/*
+	@uv run uv-publish
 
 .PHONY: help
 help:

pyproject.toml

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ dev = [
     "pytest-cov>=5",
     "pytest-mock>=3.14.1",
     "ruff>=0.14.10",
-    "twine>=6.1",
+    "uv-publish>=1.3",
 ]
 docs = [
     "black>=25",

tasks.py

@@ -1,10 +1,4 @@
-"""Development related tasks to be run with 'invoke'.
-
-Make sure you satisfy the following Python module requirements if you are trying to publish a release to PyPI:
-    - twine >= 1.11.0
-    - wheel >= 0.31.0
-    - setuptools >= 39.1.0
-"""
+"""Development related tasks to be run with 'invoke'."""
 
 import contextlib
 import os
@@ -279,43 +273,3 @@ def validatetag(context: Context) -> None:
 
 
 namespace.add_task(validatetag)
-
-
-@invoke.task(pre=[clean_all])
-def sdist(context: Context) -> None:
-    """Create a source distribution."""
-    with context.cd(TASK_ROOT_STR):
-        context.run('python -m build --sdist')
-
-
-namespace.add_task(sdist)
-
-
-@invoke.task(pre=[clean_all])
-def wheel(context: Context) -> None:
-    """Build a wheel distribution."""
-    with context.cd(TASK_ROOT_STR):
-        context.run('python -m build --wheel')
-
-
-namespace.add_task(wheel)
-
-
-@invoke.task(pre=[validatetag, sdist, wheel])
-def pypi(context: Context) -> None:
-    """Build and upload a distribution to pypi."""
-    with context.cd(TASK_ROOT_STR):
-        context.run('twine upload dist/*')
-
-
-namespace.add_task(pypi)
-
-
-@invoke.task(pre=[validatetag, sdist, wheel])
-def pypi_test(context: Context) -> None:
-    """Build and upload a distribution to https://test.pypi.org."""
-    with context.cd(TASK_ROOT_STR):
-        context.run('twine upload --repository testpypi dist/*')
-
-
-namespace.add_task(pypi_test)