src/tiff/HOWTO-RELEASE

HOWTO-RELEASE:

Notes on releasing. You will need appropriate autoconf, automake and libtool
utilities to release a package.

1. Commit any unsaved changes.

2. "make clean"

3. Create html/vX.X.html.  Take ChangeLog entries and html-ify in there.
   Easist thing to do is take html/vX.(X-1).html and use it as a template.
   Add that file to the list of EXTRA_DIST files in the html/Makefile.am.

3.5. Update html/index.html to refer to this new page as the current release.

4. Increment version in configure.ac.  Put 'alpha' or 'beta' after
   the version, if applicable.

   eg.
   3.5.7
    or
   3.5.8beta

   Version should be updated in two places: in the second argument of the
   AC_INIT macro and in LIBTIFF_xxx_VERSION variables.

5. autoconf

6. sh configure

7. make release -- this will update "RELEASE-DATE" and "VERSION" in the top
   level dir, and libtiff/tiffvers.h.

8. Please verify that the version info in RELEASE-DATE, VERSION and
   libtiff/tiffvers.h is right.

9. make; make distcheck (to test).

10. make distclean

11. cvs commit

12. cvs tag Release-v3-5-7 (or the appropriate name for the release)

13. configure; make dist
    Two files with names tiff-version.tar.gz and tiff-version.zip will
    be created in the top level package directory.

14. Copy to ftp.remotesensing.org ftp site.
    scp tiff-*.tar.gz ftp.remotesensing.org:/var/ftp/libtiff/
    scp tiff-*.zip ftp.remotesensing.org:/var/ftp/libtiff/

15. Announce to list, tiff@lists.maptools.org

16. Update libtiff page on freshmeat with new version announcement.
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	1	HOWTO-RELEASE:
	2
	3	Notes on releasing. You will need appropriate autoconf, automake and libtool
	4	utilities to release a package.
	5
	6	1. Commit any unsaved changes.
	7
	8	2. "make clean"
	9
	10	3. Create html/vX.X.html. Take ChangeLog entries and html-ify in there.
	11	Easist thing to do is take html/vX.(X-1).html and use it as a template.
	12	Add that file to the list of EXTRA_DIST files in the html/Makefile.am.
	13
	14	3.5. Update html/index.html to refer to this new page as the current release.
	15
	16	4. Increment version in configure.ac. Put 'alpha' or 'beta' after
	17	the version, if applicable.
	18
	19	eg.
	20	3.5.7
	21	or
	22	3.5.8beta
	23
	24	Version should be updated in two places: in the second argument of the
	25	AC_INIT macro and in LIBTIFF_xxx_VERSION variables.
	26
	27	5. autoconf
	28
	29	6. sh configure
	30
	31	7. make release -- this will update "RELEASE-DATE" and "VERSION" in the top
	32	level dir, and libtiff/tiffvers.h.
	33
	34	8. Please verify that the version info in RELEASE-DATE, VERSION and
	35	libtiff/tiffvers.h is right.
	36
	37	9. make; make distcheck (to test).
	38
	39	10. make distclean
	40
	41	11. cvs commit
	42
	43	12. cvs tag Release-v3-5-7 (or the appropriate name for the release)
	44
	45	13. configure; make dist
	46	Two files with names tiff-version.tar.gz and tiff-version.zip will
	47	be created in the top level package directory.
	48
	49	14. Copy to ftp.remotesensing.org ftp site.
	50	scp tiff-*.tar.gz ftp.remotesensing.org:/var/ftp/libtiff/
	51	scp tiff-*.zip ftp.remotesensing.org:/var/ftp/libtiff/
	52
	53	15. Announce to list, tiff@lists.maptools.org
	54
	55	16. Update libtiff page on freshmeat with new version announcement.
	56
	57