1HOWTO-RELEASE: 2Notes on releasing. 3 41. Commit any unsaved changes. 5 62. "make clean" 7 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. 10 113.5. Update html/index.html to refer to this new page as the current release. 12 134. Add any new files that have been created that should be part 14 of the distribution (like the html file in step 2), to 15 TIFFFILES in Makefile.in 16 175. Increment version in file "VERSION". Put Alpha or Beta after the version 18 with a space, if applicable. 19 20 eg. 21 3.5.7 22 or 23 3.5.8 Beta 24 256. sh configure; make; make install (to test). 26 277. make release -- this will update "RELEASE-DATE" in the top level dir, 28 libtiff/tiffvers.h and create the .tar.gz and .zip archives one directory 29 above. 30 318. Please verify that the version info in libtiff/tiffvers.h is right. 32 339. make distclean 34 3510. cvs commit 36 3711. cvs tag Release-v3-5-7 (or the appropriate name for the release) 38 3912. Copy to ftp.remotesensing.org ftp site. 40 scp tiff-*.tar.gz remotesensing.org:/ftp/remotesensing/pub/libtiff 41 scp tiff-*.zip remotesensing.org:/ftp/remotesensing/pub/libtiff 42 4313. Announce to list, [email protected] 44 4514. Update libtiff page on freshmeat with new version announcement. 46 47 48