| 1 | HOWTO-RELEASE:
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| 2 |
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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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| 9 |
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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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| 15 |
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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, tiff@lists.maptools.org
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| 54 |
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| 55 | 16. Update libtiff page on freshmeat with new version announcement.
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