docs/tech/tn0022.txt

   1                         Making a new wxWidgets release
   2                         ==============================
   3
   4 Before making the release
   5 -------------------------
   6
   7 Update docs/readme.txt. Please review its contents in addition to just
   8 changing the version number.
   9
  10
  11 Creating release files
  12 ----------------------
  13
  14 Currently our release system uses a Python 2.x script to generate releases.
  15 The script requires Unix utilities such as tar, zip and unix2dos and thus must
  16 be run either on Unix or using Cygwin on Windows. To generate a release, simply
  17 run the following command:
  18
  19 build/tools/create-archive.py --compression=all /path/to/output/dir
  20
  21 This will produce zip, gzip and bzip archives of the tree (without
  22 "compression" argument only .gz is made). Note that this commands produces huge
  23 amounts of output so redirecting it to a file is recommended.
  24
  25 To add a prefix to the release, such as RC1, the SVN revision, or a date, just
  26 pass --postfix="postfix" to the script. More info on the options and their
  27 possible values can be found by calling `create-archive.py --help`.
  28
  29 IMPORTANT NOTE: You *must* run this script from a clean source tree, that is,
  30           with no junk files in it or modifications. This is because the
  31           release should be a pristine copy of the tree as of the time of
  32           release. If you have legitimate modifications in the tree that need
  33           to be in the release, commit them first.
  34
  35 To generate the windows installer (.exe) and the documentation files (chm and htb formats)
  36 run:
  37
  38 build\tools\bld_chm_exe.bat
  39
  40 which depends on the wxwidgets.iss file, and generates output in the %DAILY% directory. It
  41 assumes a clean copy of the wxWidgets source tree in %INNO%. Temporary files will be generated
  42 in the tree from which the batch file is run. It depends on doxygen, a number of gnu
  43 win32 tools and Microsofts htmlhelp compiler. The wxwidgets.iss file should not need
  44 editing, but you will want to check that the bld_chm_exe.bat has the correct version number.
  45
  46
  47
  48 Alternative non official release scripts
  49 ----------------------------------------
  50
  51 If you use git-svn, then you can use alternative script that avoids the
  52 problems such as using non-clean tree and also has better handling of the ends
  53 of lines conversions. To use it you need to run
  54
  55 - build/tools/svn-find-native-eols.pl
  56 - build/tools/git-make-release
  57 - build/tools/make-html-docs
  58
  59 (the last one can also be used without git).
  60
  61
  62 Uploading
  63 ---------
  64
  65 Upload the files to SourceForge. This can be done via the web interface or just
  66 scp to sfusername,wxwindows@frs.sf.net:/home/frs/project/w/wx/wxwindows/x.y.z
  67 You will need to use the web interface to mark the latest uploaded files as
  68 being "default downloads" for the appropriate platforms (.zip or .exe for MSW,
  69 .tar.bz2 for everything else) as otherwise SourceForge would continue to suggest
  70 people to download old files.
  71
  72 Also upload the files to the FTP mirror at ftp.wxwidgets.org (ask Chris for
  73 access if you don't have it).
  74
  75 Create http://docs.wxwidgets.org/x.y.z/ (ask Bryan to do it if not done yet).
  76
  77
  78 Announcement
  79 ------------
  80
  81 Post announcement at least to wx-announce@googlegroups.com.
  82
  83 TODO: where else to announce it?
  84
  85 Update www.wxwidgets.org, usually a news item is enough but something more can
  86 be called for for major releases.
  87
  88 Post to wxBlog if necessary.
  89
  90
  91 Version updates
  92 ---------------
  93
  94 Trac: mark the milestone corresponding to the release as completed and add a
  95 new version for it to allow reporting bugs against it (ask Vadim or Robin to do
  96 it).
  97
  98 Run misc/scripts/inc_release to increment micro version, i.e. replace x.y.z
  99 with x.y.z+1 (minor or major versions updates require manual intervention).