X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/273a28a1e9e75debba8dc7c4ecde18d17eb6585d..f04f570fd23deca0ee5ac90ebbda8fbe89f1b9e7:/docs/tech/tn0022.txt

diff --git a/docs/tech/tn0022.txt b/docs/tech/tn0022.txt
index 8e01540219..9f1c3285ef 100644
--- a/docs/tech/tn0022.txt
+++ b/docs/tech/tn0022.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
                         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.
+
+
 Creating release files
 ----------------------
 
@@ -25,6 +32,18 @@ IMPORTANT NOTE: You *must* run this script from a clean source tree, that is,
           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.
+
+
 
 Alternative non official release scripts
 ----------------------------------------
@@ -43,11 +62,17 @@ of lines conversions. To use it you need to run
 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
+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.
+
+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).
+Create http://docs.wxwidgets.org/x.y.z/ (ask Bryan to do it if not done yet).
 
 
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