docs/tech/tn0013.txt

   1                       How to prepare wxGTK distribution
   2                       =================================
   3
   4 0. Introduction
   5 ---------------
   6
   7 This note explains what should be done, step by step, to prepare the packages
   8 for a wxGTK distribution.
   9
  10 1. Preparing the sources
  11 ------------------------
  12
  13 a) Do a fresh checkout using the command
  14
  15         cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.wxwindows.org:/home/wxcvs co wxGTK
  16
  17    NB: if you realize later that some needed files were not checked out
  18        by this command, please modify CVSROOT/modules to include the missing
  19        files so that it works for the next release!
  20
  21    You also need the samples, demos and contrib directories, so change to
  22    wxWindows directory created by the first cvs command and do "cvs up -d"
  23    for each of them.
  24
  25 b) Create a build directory under wxWindows, e.g. I use "gtk-release",
  26    "cd" to it and type "make -j1 dist bzip-dist-only". This should create
  27    the  following files;
  28
  29    wxGTK-${version}.tar.bz2
  30    wxGTK-demos-${version}.tar.bz2
  31    wxGTK-samples-${version}.tar.bz2
  32    wxGTK-${version}.tar.gz
  33    wxGTK-demos-${version}.tar.gz
  34    wxGTK-samples-${version}.tar.gz
  35
  36    where version is something like 2.3.2.
  37
  38    Note 1: "-j1" is needed now because make dist target is broken and doesn't
  39            allow parallelizing, if your make is aliased to "make -j4" (like
  40            mine), it simply won't work.
  41
  42    Note 2; there are also dist-only and bzip-dist targets, the "-only" suffix
  43            means to just create the archive supposing that the files
  44            themselves are already under _dist_dir/wxGTK-${version} where
  45            "make dist" creates them
  46
  47 2. Building the RPMs
  48 --------------------
  49
  50 Note that we didn't check if the library actually could be built - this is
  51 because it is done during this step, during the RPM generation. If, for
  52 whatever reason, you don't build the RPMs, you must have checked previously
  53 that the library could be built - nothing worse than a release which doesn't
  54 even compile!
  55
  56 The rest of this section applies to a system with RPM installed (Redhat in my
  57 case).
  58
  59 a) Setting up the RPM tree: you should have the RPM tree set up properly
  60    before doing anything else. If you are going to build the RPMs as root,
  61    you already have one under /usr/src/redhat and can just build there.
  62    Otherwise you may do it (without root rights) in any directory RPM_ROOT.
  63    RPM_ROOT should have the following subdirectories: BUILD, RPMS, SOURCES,
  64    SPECS and SRPMS. RPMS should contain i386, i686 and noarch. You should
  65    also create the file ~/.rpmmacros containing at least the following line:
  66    "%_topdir /biton/zeitlin/rpm".
  67
  68    In either case, put the file wxGTK-${version}.tar.bz2 in SOURCES
  69    subdirectory and wxGTK.spec in SPECS one (hint: you can just link them from
  70    there - like this you won't forget to update them after redoing "make
  71    dist").
  72
  73 b) Start RPM build by going to RPM_ROOT directory and typing "rpm -bb
  74    SPECS/wxGTK.spec". It may be a good idea to append "2&>1 | tee wxGTK.out"
  75    (or "|& tee" if you're using the one true shell ;-) as it might be not
  76    easy to detect errors in the verbose rpm output if anything goes wrong.
  77
  78    Then wait (and pray that nothing goes wrong because if anything does
  79    you'll have to restart from the very beginning because rpm doesn't allow
  80    to short circuit the package generation).
  81
  82    If everything goes well, the following files are produced:
  83
  84    SRPMS/wxGTK-${version}-1.src.rpm
  85    RPMS/i386/wxGTK-${version}-1.i386.rpm
  86    RPMS/i386/wxGTK-devel-${version}-1.i386.rpm
  87    RPMS/i386/wxGTK-gl-${version}-1.i386.rpm
  88    RPMS/i386/wxGTK-static-${version}-1.i386.rpm
  89
  90 3. Building the DEBs
  91 --------------------
  92
  93 [Ron is doing this]
  94
  95 4. Uploading the files
  96 ----------------------
  97
  98 All 11 files should be uploaded (via FTP) to several locations.
  99
 100 a) incoming.sourceforge.net, go to project admin page on sf.net and choose
 101    add/edit releases for more details
 102
 103 b) ftp.remstar.com (Julian has the password)
 104
 105 5. Announcing the release
 106 -------------------------
 107
 108 a) FreshMeat:
 109    - http://freshmeat.net/projects/wxwindowsgtk/
 110    - username and password are "wxgtk" for logging in
 111    - hit "new release" at the top
 112    - follow the step by step
 113
 114 b) wx-announce mailing list: mailto:wx-announce@lists.wxwindows.org
 115
 116    [where is the announcement text? TODO]
 117
 118 c) update www.wxwindows.org
 119
 120 d) GNOME (very effective, stays on front page for days):
 121     - http://www.gnome.org/applist
 122     - Search for wxWindows
 123     - Update the version number
 124     - Ignore the error message
 125
 126 e) MacNN:
 127    - http://www.macnn.com
 128    - Contact or Contribute or something
 129
 130 f) MacRumors:
 131    - http://www.macrumors.com
 132    - Contact or Contribute or something
 133
 134 g) Apple Developers Connection:
 135     mailto: adcnews@apple.com
 136
 137 h) LinuxDevices.com:
 138     Interesting for wxUniversal.
 139
 140 i) The Python mailing list:
 141