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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5 |
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6 | 1. Commit any unsaved changes.
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7 |
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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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13 |
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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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18 |
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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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23 |
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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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26 |
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27 | 5. autoconf
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28 |
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29 | 6. sh configure
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30 |
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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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33 |
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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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40 |
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41 | 11. cvs commit
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42 |
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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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52 |
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53 | 15. Announce to list, [email protected]
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55 | 16. Update libtiff page on freshmeat with new version announcement.
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