Making a new wxWidgets release
==============================
+Before making the release
+-------------------------
+
+Update docs/readme.txt. Please review its contents in addition to just
+changing the version number.
+
+Put a date on the release line in docs/changes.txt.
+
+Update the date in the manual (docs/doxygen/mainpages/manual.h).
+
+Update the release announcement post in docs/publicity/announce.txt.
+
+
Creating release files
----------------------
+The currently used release scripts need to be used from git-svn checkout and
+rely on Git to avoid problems with using non-clean trees and such. If you don't
+use Git you may use the alternative archive creation scripts in the next
+section.
+
+Follow these steps assuming the current working directory is the root of git
+working copy and you want to prepare distribution for the version x.y.z:
+
+1. Run "./build/tools/svn-find-native-eols.pl > ../eol-native" (if you have
+ an existing svn checkout, pass it to the script to make it run much faster,
+ but take care to have up to date sources in the working tree).
+
+2. Run "./build/tools/git-make-release x.y.z" to create source archives
+ ../wxWidgets-x.y.z.{7z,tar.bz2,zip} and wxWidgets_x.y.z_Headers.zip.
+
+3. Run "./build/tools/make-html-docs x.y.z" to create HTML documentation
+ archives ../wxWidgets-x.y.z.{tar.bz2,zip}
+
+4. This step must be done under Windows as it relies on having hhc.exe, the
+ Html Help compiler, in PATH: run the following commands
+
+ cd docs\doxygen
+ regen.bat chm
+ cd out
+ zip ..\..\..\wxWidgets-x.y.z-docs-chm.zip wx.chm
+
+5. This step also must be done under Windows as it uses Inno Setup to produce
+ the .exe file and it also requires the CHM file built above:
+
+ md x.y.z-sources
+ cd x.y.z-sources
+ 7z x ..\wxWidgets-x.y.z.7z
+ md docs\htmlhelp
+ cp ..\docs\doxygen\out\wx.chm docs\htmlhelp
+ set WXW_VER=x.y.z
+ iscc build\tools\wxwidgets.iss
+
+
+
+Instructions for the previous version of release scripts
+--------------------------------------------------------
+
+NB: These scripts haven't been used since 2.8 series and may not work any longer!
+
Currently our release system uses a Python 2.x script to generate releases.
The script requires Unix utilities such as tar, zip and unix2dos and thus must
be run either on Unix or using Cygwin on Windows. To generate a release, simply
release. If you have legitimate modifications in the tree that need
to be in the release, commit them first.
+To generate the windows installer (.exe) and the documentation files (chm and htb formats)
+run:
+
+build\tools\bld_chm_exe.bat
+
+which depends on the wxwidgets.iss file, and generates output in the %DAILY% directory. It
+assumes a clean copy of the wxWidgets source tree in %INNO%. Temporary files will be generated
+in the tree from which the batch file is run. It depends on doxygen, a number of gnu
+win32 tools and Microsofts htmlhelp compiler. The wxwidgets.iss file should not need
+editing, but you will want to check that the bld_chm_exe.bat has the correct version number.
-Also run doxygen to create HTML documentation and pack it in .tar.bz2 and .zip
-formats.
Uploading
---------
-Upload the files to SourceForge (the simplest is to scp them to
-sfusername,wxwindows@frs.sf.net:/home/frs/project/w/wx/wxwindows/x.y.z) and to
-ftp.wxwidgets.org (ask Chris to do it).
+Upload the files to SourceForge. This can be done via the web interface or just
+scp to sfusername,wxwindows@frs.sf.net:/home/frs/project/w/wx/wxwindows/x.y.z
+The following files need to be uploaded:
+
+ wxMSW-Setup-x.y.z.exe
+ wxWidgets-x.y.z.7z
+ wxWidgets-x.y.z.tar.bz2
+ wxWidgets-x.y.z.zip
+ wxWidgets-docs-chm-x.y.z.zip
+ wxWidgets-docs-html-x.y.z.tar.bz2
+ wxWidgets-docs-html-x.y.z.zip
+
+The file wxWidgets-x.y.z_Headers.7z should be uploaded to binaries
+subdirectory as it's only useful when using pre-built binaries.
+
+You will need to use the web interface to mark the latest uploaded files as
+being "default downloads" for the appropriate platforms (.zip or .exe for MSW,
+.tar.bz2 for everything else) as otherwise SourceForge would continue to suggest
+people to download old files.
+
+Next, update (at least the versions and SHA1 sums, but maybe more) and upload
+docs/release_files.mdwn and docs/release_binaries.mdwn files. They need to be
+renamed to README.md on SF to be shown when the directory is viewed, i.e. do:
-Create http://docs.wxwidgets.org/x.y.z/ (ask Bryan to do it).
+ scp docs/release_files.mdwn \
+ sfuser,wxwindows@frs.sf.net:/home/frs/project/w/wx/wxwindows/x.y.z/README.md
+ scp docs/release_binaries.mdwn \
+ sfuser,wxwindows@frs.sf.net:/home/frs/project/w/wx/wxwindows/x.y.z/binaries/README.md
+
+And upload the change log too:
+
+ scp docs/changes.txt \
+ sfuser,wxwindows@frs.sf.net:/home/frs/project/w/wx/wxwindows/x.y.z
+
+
+Also upload the files to the FTP mirror at ftp.wxwidgets.org (ask Chris for
+access if you don't have it).
+
+Create http://docs.wxwidgets.org/x.y.z/ (ask Bryan to do it if not done yet).
Announcement
------------
-Post announcement at least to wx-announce@googlegroups.com.
+Post docs/publicity/announce.txt at least to wx-announce@googlegroups.com.
+
+Submit a link to http://www.reddit.com/r/programming
-TODO: where else to announce it?
+For major releases, submit the announcement to http://slashdot.org/submission
Update www.wxwidgets.org, usually a news item is enough but something more can
be called for for major releases.
+Also update downloads/index.html to mention the new latest release.
+
Post to wxBlog if necessary.
+Announce on Google+/Twitter/whatever the person doing the release prefers (we
+don't have "official" wxWidgets account, should we?).
+
Version updates
---------------
Trac: mark the milestone corresponding to the release as completed and add a
-new version for it to allow reporting bugs against it (ask Vadim or Robin to do
-it).
+new version for it to allow reporting bugs against it and create the next
+milestone (ask Vadim or Robin to do it or to get admin password).
Run misc/scripts/inc_release to increment micro version, i.e. replace x.y.z
with x.y.z+1 (minor or major versions updates require manual intervention).
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