src/tiff/HOWTO-RELEASE

   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.
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  57