update release process

[AnnMarieW]

• In release 0.14.7 I intended to exclude the metadata.json file., however, this file was still included. In this PR I specifically excluded the file from MANIFEST.IN. When I do npm run dist, this file is excluded in the .tar.gz, but it's still included in the .whl. I'm not sure how to fix this, but before next release, make sure the metadata.json file is excluded (delete the file before creating the distribution if necessary)

• I excluded the dependency "@mantine/spotlight": "7.13.4" because we don't have that component (yet), but it didn't seem to make any difference to the .js file. Is it worth excluding?

[alexcjohnson]

re metadata.json: per Slack, I suspect the issue is a build dir that should be deleted - normally right before python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel I run rm -rf dist build to prevent this.

re @mantine/spotlight: correct, removing it from package.json won't affect the bundle - the bundle only includes packages that are actually imported in the code. To be able to import a package it must be installed, therefore it must exist in package.json, but the converse is not true. So you can leave it there as a placeholder if you like, or you can remove it for now and put it back later, doesn't matter much.

[AnnMarieW]

I just did the steps again to create the distribution files

1. deleted the dist and build folders
2. npm run build
3. npm run dist

The wheel still has metadata.json included - that is the reason for the difference in the size:

Update:

Ooops! I was wrong. The metadata.json is no longer included when both the old dist and build folders are deleted. Not sure why the .whl file is larger, but the metadata.json file is not included. Might have also worked this time because I ran it on this branch with the updated MANTIFEST.in that excludes this file.

Still need to double check that the file is excluded before uploading to PyPi

[alexcjohnson]

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