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1HOWTO-RELEASE:
2Notes on releasing.  <[email protected]>
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41. Commit any unsaved changes.
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62. "make clean"
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83. Create html/vX.X.html.  Take ChangeLog entries and html-ify in there.
9   Easist thing to do is take html/vX.(X-1).html and use it as a template.
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114. Add any new files that have been created that should be part
12   of the distrubituion (like the html file in step 2), to
13   TIFFFILES in Makefile.in
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155. Make sure tif_dir.c in lzw-compression-kit is in sync with the
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186. Increment version in file "VERSION"
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208. sh configure; make; make install (to test).
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229. make release -- this will update "RELEASE-DATE" in the top level dir,
23   and create the .tar.gz and .zip archives one directory above.
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2510. make distclean
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2711. cvs commit
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2912. ftp ftp.onshore.com;
30    cd /home/ftp/pub/libtiff
31    put ../tiff-vn-n-n.zip .
32    put ../tiff-vn-n-n.tar.gz .
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3413. ftp ftp.libtiff.org
35    lcd html
36    mput *.html
37    put ../tiff-vn-n-n.zip .
38    put ../tiff-vn-n-n.tar.gz .
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4013. Commit any changes in libtiff-lzw-compression-kit.
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42    Update VERSION in Makefile.
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44    make release
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46    ftp to both sites.
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4814. Announce to list, [email protected]
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