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1 HOWTO-RELEASE: |
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3 Notes on releasing. You will need appropriate autoconf, automake and libtool |
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4 utilities to release a package. |
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6 1. Commit any unsaved changes. |
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8 2. "make clean" |
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10 3. Create html/vX.X.html. Take ChangeLog entries and html-ify in there. |
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11 Easist thing to do is take html/vX.(X-1).html and use it as a template. |
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12 Add that file to the list of EXTRA_DIST files in the html/Makefile.am. |
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14 3.5. Update html/index.html to refer to this new page as the current release. |
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16 4. Increment version in configure.ac. Put 'alpha' or 'beta' after |
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17 the version, if applicable. |
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19 eg. |
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20 3.5.7 |
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21 or |
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22 3.5.8beta |
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24 Version should be updated in two places: in the second argument of the |
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25 AC_INIT macro and in LIBTIFF_xxx_VERSION variables. |
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27 5. autoconf |
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29 6. sh configure |
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31 7. make release -- this will update "RELEASE-DATE" and "VERSION" in the top |
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32 level dir, and libtiff/tiffvers.h. |
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34 8. Please verify that the version info in RELEASE-DATE, VERSION and |
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35 libtiff/tiffvers.h is right. |
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36 |
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37 9. make; make distcheck (to test). |
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38 |
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39 10. make distclean |
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41 11. cvs commit |
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43 12. cvs tag Release-v3-5-7 (or the appropriate name for the release) |
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44 |
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45 13. configure; make dist |
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46 Two files with names tiff-version.tar.gz and tiff-version.zip will |
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47 be created in the top level package directory. |
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48 |
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49 14. Copy to ftp.remotesensing.org ftp site. |
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50 scp tiff-*.tar.gz ftp.remotesensing.org:/var/ftp/libtiff/ |
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51 scp tiff-*.zip ftp.remotesensing.org:/var/ftp/libtiff/ |
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53 15. Announce to list, tiff@lists.maptools.org |
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55 16. Update libtiff page on freshmeat with new version announcement. |
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