X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/bison.git/blobdiff_plain/a801089ca3a86b89374dfbcc790944a9aad1aebd..737406a32c201471699bfa0843d1f432f3ec29ab:/README-hacking diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking index 1902a016..f79a31a8 100644 --- a/README-hacking +++ b/README-hacking @@ -46,6 +46,13 @@ of the .output file etc. This excludes impossible error messages (comparable to assert/abort), and all the --trace output which is meant for the maintainers only. +** Horizontal tabs +Do not add horizontal tab characters to any file in Bison's repository +except where required. For example, do not use tabs to format C code. +However, make files, ChangeLog, and some regular expressions require +tabs. Also, test cases might need to contain tabs to check that Bison +properly processes tabs in its input. + * Working from the repository @@ -219,6 +226,8 @@ release: ** Update the submodules. See above. +** Update maintainer tools, such as Autoconf. See above. + ** Try to get the *.pot files to the Translation Project at least one week before a stable release, to give them time to translate them. Before generating the *.pot files, make sure that po/POTFILES.in and @@ -311,7 +320,7 @@ Here's a brief reminder of how to roll the tarballs and upload them: *** put bison-2.3b.tar.gz # This can take a while. *** put bison-2.3b.tar.gz.sig *** put bison-2.3b.tar.gz.directive.asc -*** Repeat all these steps for bison-2.3b.tar.bz2. +*** Repeat all these steps for bison-2.3b.tar.xz. ** Update Bison manual on www.gnu.org. @@ -386,7 +395,7 @@ Push these changes. ----- -Copyright (C) 2002-2005, 2007-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 2002-2005, 2007-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU Bison.